The anticanonical bigness conjecture for projective splinters

Let XX be a splinter, meaning that every finite surjective morphism onto XX admits a splitting of the corresponding map of structure sheaves. Assume that XX is a bbQbbQ-Gorenstein projective scheme over a field of positive characteristic.

Anticanonical bigness conjecture. If XX is a splinter, then KX-K_X is big.

This conjecture is motivated by the expectation that splinters in positive characteristic should be globally FF-regular; global FF-regularity imposes strong positivity constraints, including bigness of the anticanonical divisor in the bbQbbQ-Gorenstein case. Its resolution is not specified in the source.

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Johannes Krah and Charles Vial, “On proper splinters in positive characteristic”, arXiv:2309.02511 (2025).

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