Functoriality of the disjoining sequence #
The loci Z_t are defined from E alone, so for a smooth h : Y → X the disjoining sequence of
h^{-1} E is the pull-back of the disjoining sequence of E [Kol07, 72]. The proof is an
induction along the steps: the center ∏_{|s| = m} ∑_{i ∈ s} G_i commutes with inverse images
because the inverse image ideal sheaf is multiplicative and commutes with sums
(disjoinCenter_comap), the pull-back of a cons is the cons of the inverse image center and
the pull-back of the tail along the induced morphism of blow-ups (pullback_cons), and strict
transforms commute with flat base change along that morphism (strictTransform_comap_of_flat).
No empty blow-up has to be deleted: the identity holds on the nose for every flat h
(disjoinSeq_comap_of_flat), in particular for smooth h (disjoin_functorial, the
functoriality of [Kol07, 34.1]) and for the base-change squares of [Kol07, 34.2], which are flat;
the "up to empty blow-ups" of Kollár's parenthetical remark concerns the alternative construction
with dim X-fold intersections, and the form with the empty blow-ups deleted is
disjoin_functorial_eraseEmpty.
Kollár's first paragraph, "we should not introduce arbitrary choices in the process", is the
statement disjoinSeq_of_equiv: the sequence does not depend on the order of the index set.
The disjoining steps of the inverse images are the pull-back of the disjoining steps, on the
nose, for flat h [Kol07, 72].
For a flat h : Y ⟶ X the disjoining sequence of h^{-1} E is the pull-back
([Kol07, 30.1]) of the disjoining sequence of E [Kol07, 72], with no empty blow-up to delete.
The disjoining commutes with smooth morphisms [Kol07, 72 and 34.1].
The disjoining commutes with smooth morphisms up to the deletion of empty blow-ups, the form of the second clause of [Kol07, 34.1].
The center does not depend on the indexing of the members.
The disjoining steps do not depend on the indexing of the members.
"We should not introduce arbitrary choices in the process" [Kol07, 72]: the disjoining sequence does not depend on the order of the index set; two families with the same components under a bijection of indices have the same disjoining sequence.