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Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type II

Author(s): Christopher D. Hacon; James M^cKernan
Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 23 (2010), 469-490.
MSC (2010): Primary 14E30
Posted: November 13, 2009
MathSciNet review: 2601040
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Abstract: Assuming finite generation in dimension , we prove that pl-flips exist in dimension .

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Christopher D. Hacon
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 155 South 1400 East, JWB 233, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
Email: hacon@math.utah.edu

James M^cKernan
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106 and Department of Mathematics, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Email: mckernan@math.ucsb.edu, mckernan@math.mit.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0894-0347-09-00651-1
PII: S 0894-0347(09)00651-1
Received by editor(s): August 13, 2008
Posted: November 13, 2009
Additional Notes: The first author was partially supported by NSF research grant no. 0456363 and an AMS Centennial fellowship.
The second author was partially supported by NSA grant no. H98230-06-1-0059 and NSF grant no. 0701101
The authors would like to thank F. Ambro, C. Birkar, P. Cascini, J. A. Chen, A. Corti, O. Fujino, S. Keel, J. Kollár and the referee for valuable suggestions.
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