The polyhedral semistable reduction conjecture

Let f:ΔXΔBf:\Delta_X\rightarrow\Delta_B be a surjective morphism of rational conical polyhedral complexes such that f1(0)={0}f^{-1}(0)=\{0\}. A projective subdivision replaces the complexes by projective subdivisions inducing a morphism, and a lattice alteration replaces the lattices by compatible sublattices and induces the corresponding morphism. A morphism is semistable when both complexes are nonsingular and, for every cone σΔX\sigma\in\Delta_X, one has f(σ)ΔBf(\sigma)\in\Delta_B and f(Nσ)=Nf(σ)f(N_\sigma)=N_{f(\sigma)}. The polyhedral semistable reduction conjecture. There exists a projective subdivision f:ΔXΔBf':\Delta_X'\rightarrow\Delta_B' followed by a lattice alteration f:ΔXΔBf”:\Delta_X”\rightarrow\Delta_B” such that ff” is semistable. This is the combinatorial formulation underlying semistable reduction. The supplied text does not state a resolution status for this formulation; the paper’s introduction says that the corresponding geometric problem is solved for relative dimension at most three.

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Kalle Karu, “Semistable reduction in characteristic 0 for families of surfaces and three-folds”, arXiv:alg-geom/9711020 (1997).

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