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Flips in the Minimal Model Program
In order get a minimal model for a given a variety $X$, we can carry out a sequence of contractions $X\rightarrow X_1\ldots \rightarrow X_n$ in such a way that that every map contracts some curves on ...
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Is being of general type stable under generization
This question is about how varieties of general type over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero $k$ behave under generization in families.
Definition. An integral projective ...
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Training towards research on birational geometry/minimal model program
Being a not yet enrolled independently supervised graduate student in mathematics, with prospects of applying to American graduate schools hopefully in a 1-2 years' time, I have a background of having ...
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What is known about the MMP over non-algebraically closed fields
I would like to know how much of the recent results on the MMP (due to Hacon, McKernan, Birkar, Cascini, Siu,...) which are usually only stated for varieties over the complex numbers, extend to ...
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Does negative Kodaira dimension imply uniruled?
There is a conjecture (often attributed to Mumford) I believe which states that if, on a smooth proper variety $X$ (over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero), there are no ...
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Singularities of pairs
In the next days I have to give a talk in which I need to explain some of the usual singularities of pairs that one meets when dealing with the minimal model program: KLT, DLT and LC pairs.
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Infinitely many minimal models
There are examples of elliptic fiber spaces over a two-dimensional base which have infinitely many relative minimal models (where two abstractly isomorphic models connected by flops are counted ...
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Singularities arising from the Minimal Model Program (an algebraic point of view)
I will start the story by the end:
Is there some characterization of (some of) the singularities arising from the Minimal Model Program (canonical, terminal, log-...) in terms of commutative algebra ?...
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The minimal model program and symplectic resolutions
I've been reading some papers of Namikawa lately, and have on several occasions come across a claim I would really like someone to expand on.
On page 4 of Poisson deformations of affine symplectic ...
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How much can small modifications change the nef cone?
First let me give a precise formulation of the question; I'll give some background/motivation at the end.
If X is a projective variety which is Q-factorial (meaning X is normal, and some sufficiently ...
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Is the number of minimal models finite
Let $X$ be a variety of general type.
Assume that $\dim X = 3$. In https://eudml.org/doc/164223 it is proven that $X$ has only finitely many minimal models (i.e., only $\mathbb Q$-factorial terminal ...
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References for the minimal model program
What are some references for a beginning graduate student in algebraic geometry to learn about the minimal model program? I'm not thinking about entering this field, but rather I just want to know ...
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rational effective implies effective?
Let $X$ be a weak del pezzo surface, I Wonder whether the following statment is true:
Let $L$ be a line bundle on $X$, then $h^0(L)=0$ implies $h^0(nL)=0$ for all $n\geq 1$.
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Basepoints in the canonical system of algebraic surfaces
Let $X$ be a smooth projective variety defined over $\mathbb{C}$. In the context of the minimal model program it is often important to understand the geometry of the maps defined by the complete ...
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Is there a classification of minimal algebraic threefolds?
The minimal model program aims to find a minimal representative in the birational class of a given variety with reasonable singularities. Assuming this has been done, it seems natural to ask what ...
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Application of MMP in other branches of algebraic geometry
I'm learning minimal model program (MMP) recently. For a projective variety $X$, following MMP, we can do a sequence of birational transformations making $K_X$ nef or to a Mori fiber space.
My ...
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Is there an Enriques–Kodaira-like classification of Fano threefolds?
I am mainly interested in varieties over an algebraic closed field $k$ (or $\mathbb{C}$). The classification of complex surface is established in the last century and known as Enriques–Kodaira ...
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Is there a purely inseparable covering $\mathbb{A}^2 \to K$ of a Kummer surface $K$ over $\mathbb{F}_{p^2}$?
Let $E_i\!: y_i^2 = x_i^3 + a_4x_i + a_6$ be two copies ($i = 1$, $2$) of a supersingular elliptic curve over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_{p^2}$, for odd prime $p > 3$. Consider the Kummer surface $...
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Where does the word "log" in log pair come from?
The minimal model program works with pairs $(X,B)$ where $X$ is a variety and $B$ is a certain kind of divisor on it. I've seen these described as "logarithmic pairs". There are also "...
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Pseudo-effective divisor which is not nef in any birational model
Let $X$ be a smooth complex projective algebraic variety and let $D$ be a $\mathbb{Q}$-Cartier pseudo-effective divisor on $X$. Lets say that $D$ is birationally nef
if there exists a birational ...
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Advantage of discrepancy
In the definition of Minimal model of projective variety, some authors use of discrepancy, and some others omit this condition. I am wondering to know the advantage of discrepancy In the definition of ...
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Generic Smoothness Type of Results in Positive Characteristic
Let $f:X\to Y$ be a surjective morphism between two projective varieties over a field of characteristic $p>0$. Also assume that $f_*\mathcal{O}_X=\mathcal{O}_Y$, and $X$ is smooth.
We know that ...
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Picard number of a general fiber of a fiber contraction
Suppose in the last step of a MMP, we obtain a Mori fiber space $f: X \to Z$, and let $F$ be a general fiber of $f$, then is the Picard number $\rho(F)$ of $F$ equal to $1$? Notice that the relative ...
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Bogomolov–Miyaoka–Yau inequality for minimal varieties with intermediate Kodaira dimension $0<\kappa (X)<\dim X$
From the differential geometric proof of Yau and the algebraic proof of Miyaoka for minimal varieties of general type $\kappa (X)=\dim X$, we know that $$(-1)^nc_1^n(X)\leq (-1)^n\frac{2(n+1)}{n} c_1^...
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Restriction of the Canonical Divisor $K_X$ to a general fiber
Let $\ f:X\to Z$ be a surjective morphism between two smooth projective varieties with connected fibers $(f_*\mathcal{O}_X=\mathcal{O}_X)$. Let $F$ be a general fiber of $f$ and $\mbox{dim } F<(\...
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Semistable minimal model of a $K3$-surface and the special fibre
Suppose that $K$ is a $p$-adic field, that is a field of characteristic $0$ whose ring of integers is a complete discrete valuation ring $\mathcal O_K$ and with residue field $k$ (algebraic closed) of ...
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Are conical symplectic resolutions Mori dream spaces?
This is one of these questions where it's tempting to just leave it at the title, but let me try to define the objects in question.
A conical symplectic resolution is a projective resolution of ...
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$K_X+B \equiv 0$ implies $K_X + B \sim_\mathbb{Q} 0$?
Let $(X,B)$ be a projective log canonical pair (here I mean $B \geq 0$). Assume that the coefficients of $B$ are rational, and that $K_X+B \equiv 0$. Is it true that $K_X + B \sim_\mathbb{Q} 0$? I ...
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Possible singularities of the base of a Mori fiber space
Suppose X is a normal projective complex variety, (X, $\Delta$) is a klt pair and f : X $\to$ Z is a Mori fiber space given by a contraction of an extremal ray for this pair. Here I mean that the ...
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Bertini's type theorems over imperfect fields
Let $X$ be a projective variety over an imperfect (hence infinite and char(k)=p>0) field $k$. If the local rings of $X$ are all regular, then can we say that a general hyperplane section $H$ is also ...
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Minimal Model Program for surfaces over algebraically closed fields of characteristic p
Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p>0$.
I have been trying to find out unsuccessfully if there is a mmp for algebraic surfaces over $k$. I know minimal surfaces are ...
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Relative logarithmic cotangent bundle
Let $\mathcal X \rightarrow S$ be a flat family of projective varieties over a discrete valuation ring $S$ such that the generic fibre $\mathcal X_{\eta}$ (say) is smooth projective variety and the ...
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Number of minimal models of a surface
I would like to know if the following statement is true or false:
Given a non-singular complex projective surface $S$, it has at most a countable number of minimal models (up to isomorphism).
We ...
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Termination of a minimal model program
I am reading "The dual complex of
singularities" by de Fernex, Kollár
and Xu and in the proof of Corollary 24 I have encountered a bit of
reasoning that confuses me.
Let $(X, \Delta)$ be a $\...
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Flops connect minimal models of algebraic spaces?
According to a Kawamata's result, two projective minimal models of the same variety are connected through a sequence of flops. In particular, a birational map $f\colon X\to X'$ between Calabi-Yau ...
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Map associated to linear system onto curve is morphism
In Mumford's first paper on Surfaces in char $p$ [1], part 2 Step (II), he wants to show that, given an indecomposable curve of canonical type $D$ on a smooth projective surface $F$ with $p_g(F)=0, ...
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Minimal Model Program for sub-lc pairs
In many articles of the minimal model program the authors work with sub-lc pairs instead of lc-pairs. In other words, they consider non-necesarilly effective boundary divisors $B$.
Is it expected (...
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On Q-Cartier Divisors
I have my question on Q-Cartier Weil divisor.
People say $D$ is Q-Cartier divisor if $nD$ is Cartier for some $n \geq 1$. Especially for $n > 1$, I have never seen the `rigorous' definition of $...
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References about pseudoeffective cone
I'm looking for references of explicit computation of the pseudoeffective cone $\overline{\text{Eff}}(X)$ of a projective variety $X$.
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How to split a Multi-section into finitely many Sections via base-change?
Let $:f:X\to Y$ be a projective surjective morphism between two normal varieties over $\mathbb{C}$. Assume that $f$ has only $1$-dimensional fibers. Let $D$ be a multi-section of $f$, i.e., $D$ is a ...
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A question about running MMP with scaling
Let $\pi:X \to U$ be a projective morphism, and $(X, \Delta = A + B)$ be a KLT pair, where $A$ is a general ample divisor and $B$ is effective.
Suppose $K_X + \Delta$ is not nef (over $U$) and there ...
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Finitely generated section ring of Mori dream spaces
Set-up: We work over $\mathbb{C}$. Let $X$ be a Mori dream space. Define, following Hu-Keel, the Cox ring of $X$ as the multisection ring
$$\text{Cox}(X)=\bigoplus_{(m_1\ldots,m_k)\in \mathbb{N}^k} \...
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Isomorphism outside of negative curves against the canonical
Let $X$ be a smooth projective complex variety and let us suppose that the closure of the union of curves $C$ on $X$ that are non-positive against the canonical divisor is a closed subset $F\subsetneq ...
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Existence of a rational curve in the center of a birational contraction for symplectic singularities
Let $M$ be a holomorphically symplectic
complex manifold, and $f: M \to X$
a holomorphic, birational contraction to a Stein
variety $X$, contracting a subvariety $E$
to a point, and bijective outside ...
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Parameter spaces for conic bundles
A conic bundle over $\mathbb{P}^n$ is a morphism $\pi:X\rightarrow\mathbb{P}^n$ with fibers isomorphic to plane conics. A conic bundle $\pi:X\rightarrow\mathbb{P}^n$ is minimal if it has relative ...
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Deminormal and Gorenstein
Let X be an irreducible deminormal variety such that the normalisation is Gorenstein. Does it follow that X is also Gorenstein?
for deminormal definition, see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02002.pdf
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A question about the dimension of a relatively ample divisor
Suppose $f: Y \to Z$ is a projective morphism of smooth varieties with connected fibers. If an effective divisor $H$ on $Y$ is relatively ample over $Z$, and $\dim Y >\dim Z$, is $h^0(Y, mH)>1$ ...
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Kuranishi family and smoothing of Calabi-Yau n-fold
Consider $X$ be a Calabi-Yau n-fold with at
most one ordinary double point singularity. Suppose $X$ is smoothable. Then it is known that the Kuranishi family of $X$ is a smoothing of $X$.
Now, ...
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Example of a non-algebraic singularity II
In an answer of this MO question, Frank Loray constructed an example of analytic singularity which is not algebraic. On the other hand, as I learned from one of Joël's comments in that question, ...
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A theorem about log Calabi-Yau pairs
Let $X$ be a normal variety with $\mathbb Q$-Cartier divisor $D$, such that $K_X+D$ is $\mathbb Q$-Cartier. Let $(X,D)$ is log Calabi-Yau pair, i.e, $K_X+D\sim_\mathbb Q0$. (For example take $ X$ be a ...
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