Strict monotonicity conjecture for Mori flips

Let g ⁣:XX+g\colon X\dashrightarrow X^+ be a birational morphism between [200 Q[200~\mathbb{Q}-Gorenstein varieties, together with birational morphisms f ⁣:XZf\colon X\to Z and f+ ⁣:X+Zf^+\colon X^+\to Z, such that gg is an isomorphism in codimension one, KX-K_X is ff-ample, and KX+K_{X^+} is f+f^+-ample; such a transformation is called a Mori flip. Strict monotonicity conjecture.

ealgstr(X)>ealgstr(X+).e^{\rm str}_{\rm alg}(X)>e^{\rm str}_{\rm alg}(X^+).

This is the flip case of the proposed strict monotonicity of the algebraic stringy Euler number under elementary birational transformations in the Mori program; the source does not state whether it has been resolved.

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Victor Batyrev and Giuliano Gagliardi, “On the algebraic stringy Euler number”, arXiv:1610.03842 (2017).

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