Viehweg's hyperbolicity conjecture for families with maximal variation

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Abstract: We use the theory of Hodge modules to construct Viehweg-Zuo sheaves on the base spaces of families with maximal variation and fibers of general type, or more generally whose geometric generic fiber has a good minimal model. We deduce Viehweg's hyperbolicity conjecture in this context, namely the fact that the base spaces of such families are of log general type. This is approached as part of a general problem of identifying what spaces can support Hodge theoretic objects with certain positivity properties.


Let \(f^\circ: Y^\circ \rightarrow X^\circ\) be a family of complex projective manifolds of general type (or more generally projective manifolds admitting a good minimal model). We say that the variation of the family is maximal if for a general point \(x \in X^0\) there exist at most countably many \(x' \in X^0\) such that \(Y_x\) is birational to \(Y_{x'}\). A famous conjecture of Viehweg claims that for a family of maximal variation the manifold \(X^0\) is of log-general type, i.e., for a compactification \(X^0 \subset X\) such that \(B:=X \setminus X^0\) is a normal crossings divisor, the Kodaira dimension \(\kappa(X, K_X+B)\) is equal to the dimension \(\dim X\). In this paper the authors prove Viehweg's conjecture. \newline This generalises results of \textit{S. Kebekus} and \textit{S. J. Kovács} for low-dimensional bases [Invent. Math. 172, No. 3, 657--682 (2008; Zbl 1140.14031); Duke Math. J. 155, No. 1, 1--33 (2010; Zbl 1208.14027)], but also the theorem of \textit{F. Campana} and \textit{M. Păun} for families of projective manifolds with ample canonical divisor [Ann. Inst. Fourier 65, No. 2, 835--861 (2015; Zbl 1338.14012)]. While these earlier results rely on the Viehweg-Zuo sheaves introduced in [\textit{E. Viehweg} and \textit{K. Zuo}, in: Complex geometry. Collection of papers dedicated to Hans Grauert on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Berlin: Springer. 279--328 (2002; Zbl 1006.14004)], this paper is based on the construction of Hodge modules and associated Higgs bundles having certain positivity properties. As a consequence of these Hodge theoretic considerations the authors construct a Viehweg-Zuo sheaf \(\mathcal H \hookrightarrow (\Omega_X(\log B))^{\otimes s}\) that is big. Combined with the recent positivity result for the logarithmic cotangent bundle \(\Omega_X(\log B)\) by \textit{F. Campana} and \textit{M. Pǎun} [``Foliations with positive slopes and birational stability of orbifold cotangent bundles, Preprint, \url{arXiv:1508.02456}] this implies the main theorem. The introduction of the paper gives a detailed account of the various technical elements that enter in the proof this important breakthrough.



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