{ "id": "2502.07233", "version": "v1", "published": "2025-02-11T03:53:39.000Z", "updated": "2025-02-11T03:53:39.000Z", "title": "A birational description of the minimal exponent", "authors": [ "Qianyu Chen", "Mircea Mustaţă" ], "comment": "24 pages", "categories": [ "math.AG" ], "abstract": "We give a description of the minimal exponent of a hypersurface using higher direct images of suitably twisted sheaves of log forms on a log resolution.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2025-02-11T03:53:39.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "14B05", "14F10", "14J17", "32S25" ], "keywords": [ "minimal exponent", "birational description", "higher direct images", "log forms", "log resolution" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 24, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }