Kollár–Shokurov inversion of adjunction conjecture

Let (X,Y)(X,Y) be a pair, where YY is a formal rational or real linear combination of closed subvarieties of XX. For a log resolution f:X  Xf:X'\xrightarrow{\ \ } X, write

f1Y=aiEi,KX/X=biEi,f^{-1}Y=\sum a_iE_i,\qquad K_{X'/X}=\sum b_iE_i,

and define the minimal log discrepancy along a subvariety WXW\subseteq X by

mld(W;X,Y)={min{biai+1f(Ei)W},if this minimum is non-negative,,otherwise.\operatorname{mld}(W;X,Y)=\begin{cases} \min\{b_i-a_i+1\mid f(E_i)\subseteq W\},&\text{if this minimum is non-negative},\\ -\infty,&\text{otherwise.} \end{cases}

Let DD be a normal effective Cartier divisor on XX with D⊈YD\not\subseteq Y, and let WDW\subset D be a proper closed subset. Kollár–Shokurov's inversion of adjunction conjecture. Then

mld(W;X,Y+D)=mld(W;D,YD).\operatorname{mld}(W;X,Y+D)=\operatorname{mld}(W;D,Y|_D).

The conjecture describes how the singularities of a pair behave under restriction to a Cartier divisor: log canonicity near WW should be equivalent to the corresponding condition on the restricted pair on DD.

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Primary source

Manuel Blickle, “A short course on geometric motivic integration”, arXiv:math/0507404 (2005).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2002–2005). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0209392.

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