McKernan's conjecture on singularities of Mori fibre space bases

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Assume d∈Nd\in\mathbb N and ϵ∈R>0\epsilon\in\mathbb R^{>0}. A Mori fibre space is a contraction f ⁣:X→Zf\colon X\to Z whose relative canonical divisor is anti-ample; an ϵ\epsilon-lc variety has log discrepancies at least ϵ\epsilon, and Q\mathbb Q-factorial means every Weil divisor has a suitable positive multiple that is Cartier.

McKernan's conjecture. There is δ∈R>0\delta\in\mathbb R^{>0} such that if f ⁣:X→Zf\colon X\to Z is a Mori fibre space, where XX is an ϵ\epsilon-lc Q\mathbb Q-factorial variety of dimension dd, then ZZ is δ\delta-lc.

The conjecture generalises known results for threefold Mori fibre spaces and is known in the toric case. Its validity in higher dimension is presented as an open problem.

References

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Caucher Birkar, “Birational geometry of algebraic varieties”, arXiv:1801.00013 (2017).

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