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On the Number of Crepant Valuations of Canonical Singularities
Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA, mcaibar{at}math.unc.edu
Received 11 June 2001. Revision received 24 May 2002.
The number of crepant valuations of an isolated canonical singularity 0
X :(f=0)
Cn, which is assumed to be nondegenerate with respect to its Newton polyhedron, is calculated in terms of weightings and the Newton polyhedron of f.