The deformation conjecture for Du Bois singularities

Let DXD\subset X be a reduced Cartier divisor, and let xDx\in D. Assume that DD has only Du Bois singularities in a neighborhood of xx.

Deformation conjecture for Du Bois singularities. Then XX has only Du Bois singularities in a neighborhood of xx.

This conjecture asks whether Du Bois singularities deform from a reduced Cartier divisor to the ambient variety. The source states that it was settled by Kovács and Schwede, so the conjecture is no longer open.

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Sándor J. Kovács, “Singularities of stable varieties”, arXiv:1102.1240 (2012).

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