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HironakaExamples.Sequence.CuspWitness

The blow-up of the origin restricted to the cusp #

"The restriction of a smooth blow-up sequence need not be a smooth blow-up sequence" [Kol07, 30.2]. On the model of HironakaExamples/Sequence/CuspModel.lean (X = 𝔸²_k, Z = V(x, y), S = V(y² − x³)):

The predicate IsSmooth is Kollár's clause on the centers; the ambient clause of [Kol07, Notation 19], the smoothness of the stages, is the one that fails here.

The affine plane is smooth over k (of relative dimension 2).

Every polynomial is congruent to its constant term modulo (x, y).

The composite k → k[x, y] → k[x, y]/(x, y) is bijective.

The origin V(x, y) ⊂ 𝔸²_k is smooth over k: its subscheme is Spec (k[x, y]/(x, y)), and k → k[x, y]/(x, y) is an isomorphism.

Blowing up the origin of 𝔸²_k is a smooth blow-up sequence.

The cuspidal cubic is not smooth over k: the scheme at which the restricted sequence of [Kol07, 30.2] starts is singular.