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Universal flattening of Frobenius
- American Journal of Mathematics
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 134, Number 2, April 2012
- pp. 349-378
- 10.1353/ajm.2012.0014
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For a variety $X$ of positive characteristic and a nonnegative integer $e$, we define its $e$-th
F-blowup to be the universal flattening of the $e$-iterated Frobenius of $X$. Thus we have the sequence
(a set labeled by nonnegative integers) of blowups of $X$. Under some condition, the sequence stabilizes
and leads to a nice (for instance, minimal or crepant) resolution. For tame quotient singularities, the
sequence leads to the $G$-Hilbert scheme.