NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
 
Geometry-Algebra-Singularities-Combinatorics 
Seminar
 
 
Factorization of birational maps 
 
 

Dan Abramovich

(Boston University)
 
 

Northeastern University

509 Lake Hall

1:30 p.m., Monday, October 18, 1999

 
 
Abstract:  I'll discuss the ideas behind recent proofs of the following result: A birational map between smooth projective varieties in characteristic zero can be factored into a sequence of smooth blowings up and down.
 
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