ABSTRACT
STEVEN DALE CUTKOSKY1 Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA E-mail: cutkoskys@missouri.edu
In this article we summarize the results of the papers [7] and [6]. In Section 2 we discuss the results of [7] on surface singularities, and in Section 3 we discuss results on the corresponding problem on varieties, which appear in [6].
