Rational connectedness modulo the non-nef locus

DOI10.4171/CMH/235MaRDI QIDQ550550zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Amaël Broustet, Gianluca Pacienza

Publication date 12 July 2011

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.4494

zbMATH Keywords

big and pseff divisorsnon-nef locusrational connectednessrational curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal model program (Mori theory, extremal rays) (14E30) (n)-folds ((n>4)) (14J40)

Abstract: It is well known that a smooth projective Fano variety is rationally connected. Recently Zhang (and later Hacon and McKernan as a special case of their work on the Shokurov RC-conjecture) proved that the same conclusion holds for a klt pair $(X,D)$ such that $-(K_X+D)$ is big and nef. We prove here a natural generalization of the above result by dropping the nefness assumption. Namely we show that a klt pair $(X,D)$ such that $-(K_X+D)$ is big is rationally connected modulo the non-nef locus of $-(K_X+D)$. This result is a consequence of a more general structure theorem for arbitrary pairs $(X,D)$ with $-(K_X+D)$ pseff.

Review text

A variety is rationally connected if two general points are joined by a rational curve. This property is enjoyed by smooth Fano varieties and is becoming more and more important both in the biregolar and the birational theory of algebraic varieties. The paper under review proves that for pairs \((X,\Delta)\) with \(-(K_X+\Delta)\) big a general point is joined by a rational curve to an irreducible component of the locus where either the pair is non nef or non klt, see [\textit{N. Nakayama}, Zariski-decomposition and abundance. MSJ Memoirs 14. Tokyo: Mathematical Society of Japan. (2004; Zbl 1061.14018)] for the precise definition. This is done combining in a clever way the proofs of \textit{Qi Zhang} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 590, 131--142 (2006; Zbl 1093.14059)] and \textit{C. Hacon}-\textit{J. Mckernan} [Duke Math. J. 138, No. 1, 119--136 (2007; Zbl 1128.14028)].

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