Nash–Semple conjecture on resolution by Nash transformations

Let XX be a pure dd-dimensional K\mathbb{K}-analytic set, where K\mathbb{K} is C\mathbb{C} or R\mathbb{R}, and let N(X)\mathcal{N}(X) denote its Nash transformation. A Nash–Semple conjecture asserts that a finite succession of Nash transformations resolves the singularities of XX. Nash proposed this problem in a private communication to Hironaka, and Semple posed it independently. Spivakovsky gave a relevant partial answer, but the conjecture is disproved by counterexamples in every dimension d4d\geq 4.

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José Edson Sampaio, “Real and bi-Lipschitz versions of the Theorem of Nobile”, arXiv:2502.20631 (2026).

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