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Purpose of the present paper is to reveal the beauty and subtlety of resolution of singularities in the case of excellent two-dimensional schemes embedded in three-space and defined over an algebraically closed field of arbitrary characteristic. The proof of strong embedded resolution we describe here combines arguments and techniques of O. Zariski, H. Hironaka, S. Abhyankar and the author.
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Hauser, H. (2000). Excellent Surfaces and Their Taut Resolution. In: Hauser, H., Lipman, J., Oort, F., Quirós, A. (eds) Resolution of Singularities. Progress in Mathematics, vol 181. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8399-3_13
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