Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type
Authors:
Caucher Birkar, Paolo Cascini, Christopher D. Hacon and James M$^{\mathrm {c}}$Kernan
Journal:
J. Amer. Math. Soc. 23 (2010), 405-468
MSC (2010):
Primary 14E30
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0894-0347-09-00649-3
Published electronically:
November 13, 2009
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2601039
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Abstract: We prove that the canonical ring of a smooth projective variety is finitely generated.
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Caucher Birkar
Affiliation:
DPMMS, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WB, United Kingdom
Email:
c.birkar@dpmms.cam.ac.uk
Paolo Cascini
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106 and Imperial College London, 180 Queens Gate, London SW7 2A2, United Kingdom
MR Author ID:
674262
Email:
cascini@math.ucsb.edu, p.cascini@imperial.ac.uk
Christopher D. Hacon
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 155 South 1400 East, JWB 233, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
MR Author ID:
613883
Email:
hacon@math.utah.edu
James M$^{\mathrm {c}}$Kernan
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
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August 13, 2008
Published electronically:
November 13, 2009
Additional Notes:
The first author was partially supported by EPSRC grant GR/S92854/02
The second author was partially supported by NSF research grant no: 0801258
The third author was partially supported by NSF research grant no: 0456363 and an AMS Centennial fellowship
The fourth author was partially supported by NSA grant no: H98230-06-1-0059 and NSF grant no: 0701101 and would like to thank Sogang University and Professor Yongnam Lee for their generous hospitality, where some of the work for this paper was completed
All authors would like to thank Dan Abramovich, Valery Alexeev, Florin Ambro, Tommaso de Fernex, Stephane Dreul, Seán Keel, Kalle Karu, János Kollár, Sándor Kovács, Michael McQuillan, Shigefumi Mori, Martin Olsson, Genia Tevelev, Burt Totaro, Angelo Vistoli and Chengyang Xu for answering many of our questions and pointing out some errors in an earlier version of this paper. They would also like to thank the referee for some useful comments.
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