“…In fact, our main combinatorial result, Theorem 4.5.2, can be viewed as a local on the base version of that conjecture, and the two problems are tightly related. In particular, Dan Abramovich pointed out that the first stage of our construction, existence of a polysimplicial subdivision, was established in the global setting in [AR02]. The conjecture of Abramovich-Karu can be treated by our method as well, and is the subject of [ALT18].…”