The Main Question on birational minimal models

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Let XX be an algebraic variety. A variety is of semi-negatively curved or Kodaira--Iitaka type if ∫Cc1(X)≤0\int_C c_1(X)\leq 0 for every curve C⊂XC\subset X and there is a unique morphism IX:X→I(X)I_X:X\to I(X) such that ∫Cc1(X)=0\int_Cc_1(X)=0 if and only if CC is contained in a fiber of IXI_X. It is of positive fiber type if there is a unique morphism mX:X→M(X)m_X:X\to M(X) such that M(X)M(X) is semi-negatively curved and c1(X)c_1(X) is positive on all the fibers, with dim⁡M(X)<dim⁡X\dim M(X)<\dim X.

The Main Question. Every algebraic variety XX is birational to a variety XmX^{\rm m} that is either of semi-negatively curved or Kodaira--Iitaka type, or of positive fiber type.

This is presented as the precise version of the first Main Question and as a proposed birational simplification of arbitrary varieties. The excerpt does not state whether it has been resolved.

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János Kollár, “The structure of algebraic varieties”, arXiv:1407.7478 (2014).

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