Mori contractions of maximal length (Q1946995)

Knowing the properties of Mori fiber spaces is one of the key tools in the context of the minimal model program. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the structure of these objects in the case when Ionescu-Wiśniewski inequality is infact an equality. In this case the authors give a strong version of the Andreatta-Wiśniewski conjecture [\textit{M. Andreatta} and \textit{J. A. Wiśniewski}, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 62(pt.1), 153--183 (1997; Zbl 0948.14014)]. They prove that any elementary contraction of fiber type of a quasi projective manifold is birational to a projective bundle. The same is proven to hold for any irreducible component of the exceptional locus for any admissible elementary birational contraction from a quasi-projective manifold.