Principalization on logarithmically foliated orbifolds
Dan Abramovich, André Belotto da Silva, Michael Temkin, Jarosław Włodarczyk
TL;DR
This work develops a characteristic-zero theory of principalization of ideals on smooth orbifolds endowed with a normal crossings divisor and a foliation. By embedding the problem into the language of foliated logarithmic varieties and employing orbifold (stack) weighted/cobordant blow-ups, the authors construct a foliation-aware invariant ${\rm inv}_{\mathcal{F}}$ and a notion of ${\mathcal{F}}$-aligned centers to drive a functorial desingularization algorithm. The main results include a principalization theorem for foliated manifolds, embedded desingularization of subvarieties, and preservation of foliation properties under aligned blow-ups, with two key applications: resolution of Darboux totally integrable foliations and a method to render generically transverse sections into transverse sections while preserving the transverse locus. They also develop a thick-class framework, showing that log-smooth and ${\mathcal{K}}$-monomial foliations admit functorial resolution and connecting to Darboux first integrals. The methods unify Rees-algebra techniques, rectification theory, and stack-theoretic blow-ups to achieve canonical, functorial, and compatible resolutions in both algebraic and analytic settings, with broad implications for foliations and differential equations in birational geometry.
Abstract
In characteristic zero, we construct principalization of ideals on smooth orbifolds endowed with a normal crossings divisor and a foliation. We then illustrate how the method can be used in the general study of foliations via two applications. First, we provide a resolution of singularities of Darboux totally integrable foliations in arbitrary dimensions -- including rational and meromorphic Darboux foliations. Second, we show how to transform a generically transverse section into a transverse section.
