McKernan's epsilon-delta conjecture for Mori fiber spaces

Let m,nm,n be fixed positive integers and let ϵ>0\epsilon>0. A variety is ϵ\epsilon-log terminal if all its log discrepancies are greater than ϵ\epsilon. A Mori fiber space is a projective morphism f ⁣:XYf\colon X\to Y such that KX-K_X is ff-ample and ρ(X/Y)=1\rho(X/Y)=1.

McKernan's conjecture. There exists a number δ=δm,n(ϵ)>0\delta=\delta_{m,n}(\epsilon)>0 such that, whenever XX is a Q\mathbb Q-factorial variety, f ⁣:XYf\colon X\to Y is a Mori fiber space with dimY=n\dim Y=n and dimX=m+n\dim X=m+n, and XX is ϵ\epsilon-log terminal, the variety YY is δ\delta-log terminal.

The conjecture predicts a uniform lower bound for the singularities of the base of Mori fiber spaces in fixed dimensions. The paper proves it in the toric case; the general conjecture is presented as open in the source.

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Valery Alexeev and Alexander Borisov, “On the Log Discrepancies in Toric Mori Contractions”, arXiv:1208.3271 (2013).

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