Ambro–Shokurov ACC conjecture for minimal log discrepancies

Let Γ[0,1]\Gamma\subset [0,1] be a DCC-set, meaning that every decreasing sequence in Γ\Gamma is eventually constant. For a log pair (X,Δ)(X,\Delta), write mld(Z,X,Δ)\operatorname{mld}(Z,X,\Delta) for the minimal log discrepancy along a closed subvariety ZXZ\subset X, and write coeff(Δ)\operatorname{coeff}(\Delta) for the set of coefficients of Δ\Delta. For a fixed integer kk, define

Ωk:={mld(Z,X,Δ)|dimX=k,(X,Δ) is a log pair,ZX is a closed subvariety,coeff(Δ)Γ}.\Omega_k:=\left\{\operatorname{mld}(Z,X,\Delta)\middle|\begin{array}{l} \dim X=k,\\ (X,\Delta)\text{ is a log pair},\\ Z\subset X\text{ is a closed subvariety},\\ \operatorname{coeff}(\Delta)\in\Gamma \end{array}\right\}.

Ambro–Shokurov's ACC conjecture. The set Ωk\Omega_k is an ACC-set: every increasing sequence α1α2\alpha_1\leq\alpha_2\leq\cdots in Ωk\Omega_k eventually becomes stationary.

This is one of the two conjectures about minimal log discrepancies attributed to Ambro and Shokurov in the source. If these conjectures hold, log-flips terminate by the cited theorem of Shokurov; the source does not state a resolution status.

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Christian Lehn, Giovanni Mongardi and Gianluca Pacienza, “Footnotes to the birational geometry of primitive symplectic varieties”, arXiv:2210.12451 (2023).

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