Generic vanishing index and the birationality of the bicanonical map of irregular varieties (Q1925766)

Let \(X\) be a smooth complex projective variety and \(\text{alb}: X\to \text{Alb}(X)=H^0(X,\Omega ^1_X)^\vee / H_1(X,\mathbb Z )\) be the Albanese morphism, then \(X\) has maximal Albanese dimension (m.A.d.) if and only if \(\text{alb}\) is generically finite on to its image. Recall the loci \(V^i(\omega _X)=\{ \alpha \in \text{Pic }^0(X)\mid h^i(X,\omega _X \otimes \alpha )>0 \}\) and the generic vanishing index \(\text{gv}(\omega _X)=\text{min}_{i>0}\{ \text{codim}_{\text{Pic }^0(X)} V^i(\omega _X)-i \}\). In the article under review, the author shows that If \(\text{gv}(\omega _X)\geq 2\) then the twisted bicanonical maps associated to \(\omega _X^{\otimes 2}\otimes \alpha\) are birational for any \( \alpha \in \text{Pic }^0(X)\). It follows as a corollary that if \(X\) is of m.A.d. and \(\omega _X^{\otimes 2}\) does not induce a birational map, then \(\text{alb}(X)\subset \text{Alb}(X)\) is fibered by subvarieties of codimension \(\leq 1\).