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Algebra Seminar

Monday, April 9, 2007 - 4:00pm

Michael Temkin

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

4N30 DRL

Grothendieck proved in EGA IV that if any integral scheme of finite type over a locally noetherian scheme X admits a desingularization, then X is quasi-excellent (we will recall the definition), and conjectured that the converse is probably true. In this talk I will show that the conjecture is true for noetherian schemes of characteristic zero. Namely, starting with the resolution of singularities for algebraic varieties, we will prove the resolution of singularities for noetherian quasi-excellent Q-schemes.