Height reduction for local uniformization of varieties and non-archimedean spaces

Abstract

It is known since the works of Zariski that the essential difficulty in the local uniformization problem is met already in the case of valuations of height one. In this paper we prove that local uniformization of schemes and non-archimedean analytic spaces rigorously follows from the case of valuations of height one. For non-archimedean spaces this result reduces the problem to studying local structure of smooth Berkovich spaces.