On anti-pluricanonical systems of \(\mathbb Q\)-Fano 3-folds (Q763645)

Let \(X\) be a terminal weak \(\mathbb Q\)-Fano threefold, i.e, \(X\) is \(\mathbb Q\)-factorial, has at worst terminal singularities, and \(-K_X\) is \(\mathbb Q\)-Cartier, nef and big. In the paper under review the author studies the behaviour of the anti-pluricanonical maps \(\varphi_{-m}\), i.e. the rational maps defined by the linear systems \(|-mK_X|\), with \(m\) a positive integer. It is known, by the boundedness theorem, that there exists \(m\) such that \(\varphi_{-m}\) is birational onto its image for any weak \(\mathbb Q\)-Fano threefold. The main concern of this paper is to find an optimal constant \(c\) such that, for \(m \geq c\), \(\varphi_{-m}\) is birational onto its image for any weak \(\mathbb Q\)-Fano threefold. In Theorem 1.1 the author finds a lower bound for this constant. He then defines a special class of \(\mathbb Q\)-Fano threefolds of Picard number one, called ``good'', for which he can prove that \(c \leq 6\). Finally, in the last section, some applications of the birationality of \(\varphi_{-m}\) are considered.