Deformation invariance of volumes of adjoint classes in smooth Kähler families

Let f:XSf:X\to S be a smooth family from a Kähler manifold XX onto a smooth, connected, relatively compact curve SS. Assume that (X,B+β)(X,B+\boldsymbol{\beta}) is a generalized klt pair, (X,B)(X,B) is log smooth over SS, and β=β\boldsymbol{\beta}=\overline{\beta} where β\beta is nef over SS. Volume invariance conjecture. The function

tvol(KXt+Bt+βXt)t\longmapsto \operatorname{vol}(K_{X_t}+B_t+\boldsymbol{\beta}_{X_t})

is constant over SS. The source presents this as a natural conjecture following local constancy results for the volume function; its general validity remains open.

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Primary source

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).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2001–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0105148.

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