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Smoothable varieties with torsion free canonical sheaf

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It will be shown that a smoothable Cohen-Macaulay variety over a field of characteristic zero is smooth if and only if its canonical sheaf is torsion free.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, 47907, West Lafayette, In, USA

    Donu Arapura

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Arapura, D. Smoothable varieties with torsion free canonical sheaf. Manuscripta Math 63, 17–20 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01173698

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