Download or read book Monomialization of Morphisms from 3-Folds to Surfaces written by Steven D. Cutkosky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-10-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A morphism of algebraic varieties (over a field characteristic 0) is monomial if it can locally be represented in e'tale neighborhoods by a pure monomial mappings. The book gives proof that a dominant morphism from a nonsingular 3-fold X to a surface S can be monomialized by performing sequences of blowups of nonsingular subvarieties of X and S. The construction is very explicit and uses techniques from resolution of singularities. A research monograph in algebraic geometry, it addresses researchers and graduate students.