A centre of order at least two never contains a reduced component #
Włodarczyk's Claim in the proof of [Wlo05, Theorem 4.7.1] is about the FIRST stage of the run of
BMO_1 whose centre contains the strict transform c̃ of a component c of V(I) along which
I is reduced. The rounds of Step 1 of the proof of [Kol07, Theorem 107] at an order d ≥ 2
blow up centres along which the nonmonomial part has order ≥ d; such a centre cannot contain
c̃: at the generic point η̃ of c̃ the nonmonomial part is the maximal ideal, of order 1
(ord_maximalIdeal_eq_one), and the order at η̃ is at least the order at a generic point of the
centre specializing to it (upper semicontinuity of the order, [Hau03, p. 392]). So the first
containing stage lies in the round of order 1. Used in
Hironaka.Resolution.Algebraic.Wlo05.EmbeddedClaimStep1,
Hironaka.Resolution.Algebraic.Wlo05.EmbeddedGenericOrder and
Hironaka.Resolution.Algebraic.Wlo05.EmbeddedCP3Step1.
A point at which an ideal sheaf has order 1 lies on no closed set along which the ideal sheaf
has order ≥ 2 (the order at a specialization is at least the order at the generic point); the
order at the point may be ≤ 1.
Step 1 of the proof of [Kol07, Theorem 107] read against the Claim: a centre along which the
marked ideal has order ≥ 2 does not contain the strict transform of a component whose generic
point carries order ≤ 1. The run is smooth (S.IsSmooth f), so its stages are smooth of relative
dimension n over k and the semicontinuity applies at stage i.