resolving singularities -- information about find a smooth proper birational surjection

A variety $X$ has a resolution of singularities if one can find a nonsingular variety $Y$ and a proper birational map from $Y$ to $X$. Every normal toric variety has a resolution of singularities given by another normal toric variety.

The following methods related to resolutions of singularities are currently available in this package.

Methods for resolving singularities

• makeSmooth(NormalToricVariety) -- make a birational smooth toric variety
• makeSimplicial(NormalToricVariety) -- make a birational simplicial toric variety
• toricBlowup(List,NormalToricVariety) -- makes the toricBlowup of a normal toric variety along a torus orbit closure