On contractible curves on normal surfaces
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چکیده
We give characterizations of contractible curves on proper normal algebraic surfaces in terms of complementary Weil divisors. From this we obtain some generalizations of the classical criteria for contractibility of Castelnuovo and Artin. Furthermore, we will derive a finiteness result on homogeneous spectra defined by Weil divisors on proper normal algebraic surfaces.
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