Small bound for birational automorphism groups of algebraic varieties (with an appendix by Yujiro Kawamata) (Q2458863)

Let \(X\) be a smooth projective variety of general type and \(\text{alb}_X:X\to \text{Alb}(X)\) be its Albanese morphism. In the article under review, it is shown that if \(X\) has dimension \(n\geq 3\), \(X\to \text{alb}_X(X)\) is generically finite, \(\text{alb}_X(X)\) is smooth and \(\text{Alb}(X)\) is simple, then the order of the birational automorphism group \(| \text{Bir} (X)| \) is bounded by \(d_nV^{10}\) where \(d_n\) is a constant depending only on \(n\) and \(V\) is the canonical volume of \(X\). A stronger (and optimum) bound \(| \text{Bir} (X)| \leq 42^3V/3\) is obtained when \(n=3\), \(q(X)\geq 4\) and the dimension of \(\text{alb}_X(X)\) is \(<3\).