Wonderful Compactification of an Arrangement of Subvarieties
| COMPLEX ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY | |
| Topic: | Wonderful Compactification of an Arrangement of Subvarieties |
| Speaker: | Li Li |
| Affiliation: | Korea Institute for Advanced Study |
| Date: | Tuesday, April 10 |
| Time/Room: | 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101 |
Consider an arrangement of nonsingular subvarieties in a nonsingular algebraic variety. We define a compactification of the complement by replacing these subvarieties with a normal crossing divisor. This compactification is obtained by a sequence of blow-ups along smooth centers. Some examples will be given. We also give a canonical decomposition of its Chow motive.