Ambro–Shokurov lower semicontinuity conjecture for minimal log discrepancies

Let XX be a normal Q\mathbb Q-Gorenstein variety and let Δ\Delta be an R\mathbb R-Weil divisor on XX such that KX+ΔK_X+\Delta is R\mathbb R-Cartier. For each integer dd, let X(d)X^{(d)} denote the locus of points of codimension dd, and let mld(X,Δ)\operatorname{mld}_{(X,\Delta)} be the minimal-log-discrepancy function on this locus.

Ambro–Shokurov's lower semicontinuity conjecture. For each dd, the function

mld(X,Δ):X(d)R{}\operatorname{mld}_{(X,\Delta)}:X^{(d)}\longrightarrow\mathbb R\cup\{-\infty\}

is lower semi-continuous.

This is the second minimal-log-discrepancy conjecture attributed to Ambro and Shokurov in the source. Together with the ACC conjecture, it is described as relevant to termination of log-flips; 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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