On a Grauert-Riemenschneider vanishing theorem in dimension 3

Abstract

Suppose $R$ is an excellent ring of dimension $3$ and has rational singularities. Let $\pi:X \longrightarrow \mathrm{Spec} \ R$ be a blow-up and $\phi: W \longrightarrow X$ be any projective, birational morphism such that $X$ and $W$ are both normal, Cohen-Macaulay, and have pseudorational singularities in codimension $2$. Then $R^{i}\phi_{*}\omega_{W}=0 \ \text{ and }R^{i}\pi_{*}\omega_{X} = 0$ for all $i>0$ and $X$ has rational singularities. We use this result to prove Lipman's vanishing conjecture in dimension $3$ for arbitrary characteristics and provide a few applications.