Terminal blowups

Date
2019/11/08 Fri 10:30 - 12:00
Room
3号館152号室
Speaker
Gregory Sankaran
Affiliation
University of Bath
Abstract

A question raised by Birkar asks, in its simplest form, for conditions under which a weighted blowup of a smooth 4-fold has terminal singularities. It turns out that this question can be answered fairly easily using established elementary toric methods. I will explain how, and describe some possible and actual generalisations.