Singularities of linear systems and boundedness of Fano varieties (Q2662015)

The author proves an important result on the boundedness of Fano varieties with mild singularities known as the BAB conjecture. More precisely, the author shows that if we fix a positive integer \(d>0\) and a positive constant \(\epsilon >0\), then the set of all \(\epsilon\)-log canonical Fano varieties forms a bounded family. Recall that a Fano variety is a projective variety such that the anti-canonical divisor \(-K_X\) is ample. This long awaited result has many important applications. In particular, the author shows that it implies that the birational automorphism groups of rationally connected varieties are Jordan, answering a question of [\textit{J.-P. Serre}, Mosc. Math. J. 9, No. 1, 183--198 (2009; Zbl 1203.14017)]. The author also proves that if the log canonical threshold of the anti-canonical system of a Fano variety is at most one, then it is computed by some divisor, answering a question of \textit{G. Tian} [J. Differ. Geom. 32, No. 1, 99--130 (1990; Zbl 0706.53036)].