Resolution of Singularities of Embedded Algebraic Surfaces

Besides the description of the geometric part of the author's 1965 proof of desingularization of algebraic surfaces and solids in nonzero characteristic, this new edition provides a self-contained introduction to birational algebraic geometry, based only on commutative algebra. It also gives a short proof of analytic desingularization in characteristic zero for any dimension found in 1996.

0 Introduction.- 1. Local Theory.- 1 Terminology and preliminaries.- 2 Resolvers and principalizers.- 3 Dominant character of a normal sequence.- 4 Unramified local extensions.- 5 Main results.- 2. Global Theory.- 6 Terminology and preliminaries.- 7 Global resolvers.- 8 Global principalizers.- 9 Main results.- 3. Some Cases of Three-Dimensional Birational Resolution.- 10 Uniformization of points of small multiplicity.- 11 Three-dimensional birational resolution over a ground field of characteristic zero.- 12 Existence of projective models having only points of small multiplicity.- 13 Three-dimensional birational resolution over an algebraically closed ground field of charateristic ? 2, 3, 5.- Appendix on Analytic Desingularization in Characteristic Zero.- Additional Bibliography.- Index of Notation.- Index of Definitions.- List of Corrections.