Discrepancy (algebraic geometry)
In algebraic geometry, given a pair (X, D) consisting of a normal variety X and a -divisor D on X (e.g., canonical divisor), the discrepancy of the pair (X, D) measures the degree of the singularity of the pair.
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- {{Citation | last1=Kollár | first1=János | last2=Mori | first2=Shigefumi | title=Birational geometry of algebraic varieties | publisher=Cambridge University Press | series=Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics | isbn=978-0-521-63277-5 |mr=1658959 | year=1998 | volume=134}}
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