The Borisov–Alexeev–Borisov conjecture for Fano varieties

Let dd be a positive integer and let Xd,ε\boldsymbol{\mathcal{X}_{d,\varepsilon}} denote the class of ε\varepsilon-klt Fano varieties of dimension dd, where ε>0\varepsilon>0 is rational. A class of projective varieties is bounded if it is parametrized, up to isomorphism over its field of definition, by a projective flat family of finite type over Z\mathbb{Z}. Borisov–Alexeev–Borisov conjecture. For any rational number ε>0\varepsilon>0, the class

Xd,ε={XX is an ε-klt Fano variety of dimension d}\mathcal{X}_{d,\varepsilon}=\left\{X\mid X\text{ is an }\varepsilon\text{-klt Fano variety of dimension }d\right\}

is bounded. The conjecture is a central boundedness statement in birational geometry; it is known in characteristic 00 by Birkar, but remains open over fields of positive characteristic.

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Primary source

Fabio Bernasconi and Gebhard Martin, “Bounding geometrically integral del Pezzo surfaces”, arXiv:2306.07000 (2024).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1808.02102.

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