Singularities of linear systems and boundedness of Fano varieties

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Abstract: We study log canonical thresholds (also called global log canonical threshold or alpha-invariant) of mathbbR-linear systems. We prove existence of positive lower bounds in different settings, in particular, proving a conjecture of Ambro. We then show that the Borisov-Alexeev-Borisov conjecture holds, that is, given a natural number d and a positive real number epsilon, the set of Fano varieties of dimension d with epsilon-log canonical singularities forms a bounded family. This implies that birational automorphism groups of rationally connected varieties are Jordan which in particular answers a question of Serre. Next we show 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 Tian in this case.


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)].



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