Li's conjecture on normalized-volume minimizers

Let XX be a variety of dimension nn, let xXx\in X be a closed point, and let ValX,x\operatorname{Val}_{X,x} denote the set of real valuations on XX centered at xx. For vValX,xv\in\operatorname{Val}_{X,x}, write \nvolX,x(v)\nvol_{X,x}(v) for its normalized volume. Assume that XX has klt singularities at xx. Li's normalized-volume minimizer conjecture. There exists a valuation vValX,xv^\ast\in\operatorname{Val}_{X,x} that minimizes \nvolX,x\nvol_{X,x}. Furthermore, such a minimizer vv^\ast is unique up to scaling and quasimonomial. The existence, uniqueness, and quasimonomiality of normalized-volume minimizers connect valuation theory with K-semistability; the source states the claim as Li's conjecture and presents the paper as proving it, while also giving an example showing that a minimizer need not be divisorial.

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Harold Blum, “Existence of valuations with smallest normalized volume”, arXiv:1606.08894 (2017).

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