The termination conjecture for flips

Let XX be a terminal Q\mathbb Q-factorial variety which is not minimal. Termination conjecture. After finitely many flips, there is an extremal ray whose exceptional locus has codimension at most one. The source states that termination is true for nn-folds with n4n\leq4, but leaves the general statement unresolved.

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M. Andreatta and M. Mella, “Morphisms of Projective Varieties from the viewpoint of Minimal Model Theory”, arXiv:math/0205224 (2002).

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