Ambro's lower semi-continuity conjecture for minimal log discrepancies

Let (X,a)(X,\mathfrak{a}) be a log pair, and let X|X| denote the set of all closed points of XX with the Zariski topology. The function

XR0{};xmldx(X,a)|X| \to \mathbb{R}_{\ge 0} \cup \{-\infty\};\quad x \mapsto \operatorname{mld}_x(X,\mathfrak{a})

is the function of minimal log discrepancies on the closed points of XX.

Lower semi-continuity conjecture. The function xmldx(X,a)x\mapsto \operatorname{mld}_x(X,\mathfrak{a}) is lower semi-continuous.

Ambro proposed this conjecture for minimal log discrepancies. It is known in several cases, including when dimX=3\dim X=3, when XX is smooth, for normal local complete intersection varieties, and for quotient singularities; the general conjecture remains open.

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Primary source

Yusuke Nakamura and Kohsuke Shibata, “Inversion of adjunction for quotient singularities III: semi-invariant case”, arXiv:2312.05808 (2026).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2002–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2112.09502, arXiv:2002.02246, arXiv:1305.1410, arXiv:math/0209392.

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