Augmented base loci and restricted volumes on normal varieties (Q484358)

\textit{L. Ein} et al. [Am. J. Math. 131, No. 3, 607--651 (2009; Zbl 1179.14006)] characterize the augmented base locus \(\mathbf B_{+}\) of an \(\mathbb R\)-divisor on a complex projective manifolds as the union of subvarieties on which the restricted volume vanishes. The proof is nonelementary and involved, combining Fujita approximation, jet separation, etc to provide estimates for spaces of sections. The paper under review provides an elementary argument for this result in the case of Cartier divisors. The loss of impact in only handling integral divisors is compensated by working on normal projective varieties over arbitrary algebraically closed fields. The paper also provides an elementary proof for the fact the the complement of the augmented base locus of a line bundle \(L\) is the largest open subset \(U\subseteq X\setminus\mathbf B(L)\) where the rational map determined by \(|mL|\) for sufficiently divisible \(m>0\) is an isomorphism onto its image. The key of the proof is a result of \textit{S. Boucksom} et al. [Math. Z. 275, No. 1--2, 499--507 (2013; Zbl 1278.14021)]. This states that \(\mathbf B_+(\pi^*L)=\pi^{-1}\mathbf B_+(L)\cup\text{Exc}(\pi)\) for any birational morphism \(\pi:Y\to X\) between normal projective varieties, and any line bundle \(L\) on \(X\). In subsequent work [\textit{A. F. Lopez}, Math. Proc. Cam. Philos. Soc. 159, No. 3, 517--527 (2015; \url{doi:10.1017/S030500411500050X})], the third author uses similarly elementary techniques, and ideals of [\textit{C. Birkar}, ``The augmented base locus of real divisors over arbitrary fields'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1312.0239}, to appear in Math. Ann.] to extend the results of this paper to \(\mathbb R\)-divisors.