Siu's conjecture on deformation invariance of plurigenera for compact Kähler manifolds

Let π:XΔ\pi:X\to\Delta be a smooth family of compact Kähler manifolds over the unit disk in C\mathbb{C}, with fiber XtX_t. For a positive integer m1m\geq 1, define the mm-genus by

Pm(Xt):=dimH0(Xt,mKXt).P_m(X_t):=\operatorname{dim}H^0(X_t,mK_{X_t}).

Siu's conjecture. The mm-genus Pm(Xt)P_m(X_t) is independent of tΔt\in\Delta. The problem is widely open for smooth Kähler families, although deformation invariance is known in several projective and Moishezon settings and recent work gives partial progress.

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Christopher D. Hacon, Yi Li and Sheng Rao, “On Pseudo-Effectivity and Volumes of Adjoint Classes in Kähler Families with Projective Central Fiber”, arXiv:2602.04158 (2026).

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