On the canonical degrees of Gorenstein threefolds of general type

DOI10.1007/S10711-016-0171-3MaRDI QIDQ2520775zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rong Du, Yun Gao

Publication date 16 December 2016

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.04832

zbMATH Keywords

abelian covercanonical mapGorenstein threefold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coverings in algebraic geometry (14E20) (3)-folds (14J30)

Abstract: Let $X$ be a Gorenstein minimal projective $3$-fold with at worst locally factorial terminal singularities. Suppose that the canonical map is generically finite onto its image. C. Hacon showed that the canonical degree is universally bounded by $576$. We improved Hacon's universal bound to $360$. Moreover, we gave all the possible canonical degrees of $X$ if $X$ is an abelian cover over $mathbb{P}^3$ and constructed all the examples with these canonical degrees.

Review text

It is known since \textit{A. Beauville} [Invent. Math. 55, 121--140 (1979; Zbl 0403.14006)] that the canonical map of a smooth complex algebraic surface of general type is, if finite, of degree \(d\) at most 36. So far only examples with degree up to 24 have been constructed. For the case of dimension 3, \textit{C. D. Hacon} [Proc. Japan Acad., Ser. A 80, No. 8, 166--167 (2004; Zbl 1068.14046)] has shown that if \(X\) is a Gorenstein minimal complex projective threefold of general type with at most locally factorial terminal singularities, then \(d\leq 576\). In this paper under review, this bound is improved to 360 (as in the case of surfaces, this theoretical limit can be achieved only for ball quotient varieties). The authors also classify the case where the canonical map is an abelian cover of \(\mathbb P^3\) (the possible canonical degrees are \(2^m\) with \(1\leq m\leq 5\)).

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