Shokurov's boundedness of complements conjecture

Let d,pNd,p\in\mathbb N be natural numbers and let R[0,1]R\subset[0,1] be a finite set of rational numbers. Let (X,B+M)(X',B'+M') be a projective lc generalized pair of dimension dd, let XZX\to Z be a contraction, assume BΦ(R)B'\in\Phi(R), pMpM is b-Cartier, XX' is Fano type over ZZ, and (KX+B+M)-(K_{X'}+B'+M') is nef over ZZ.

Shokurov's boundedness of complements conjecture. There exists a constant nn depending only on dd, pp, and RR such that KX+B+MK_{X'}+B'+M' has an nn-complement KX+B++MK_{X'}+B^{\prime+}+M' with B+BB^{\prime+}\geq B' over any point zZz\in Z.

This conjecture is closely related to the BAB conjecture and was proved in characteristic zero by induction on dimension, separating the exceptional and non-exceptional cases. Its positive-characteristic validity is part of the boundedness problem studied here.

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Primary source

Xintong Jiang, “Boundedness of complements for fibered Fano threefolds in positive characteristic”, arXiv:2506.00553 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (1997–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:alg-geom/9711024.

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