1995/02/10 by Andrea Bruno, Bruno, Andrea, Kenji Matsuki +1 · 1 citation
Mathematics · #Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory #FOS: Mathematics #Geometry and complex manifolds #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.alg-geom/9502007
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The purpose of this paper is two-fold. The first is to give a tutorial introduction to the Sarkisov program, a 3-dimensional generalization of Castelnuovo-Nöther Theorem ``untwisting" birational maps between Mori fiber spaces, which was recently established by Corti after Sarkisov and Reid. The second is an attempt to give a logarithmic generalization of the program, introducing the notion of the Sarkisov relation. We give a simple description of the structure of the program and clarify the mechanism of termination connected to the boundedness conjecture of (log) Q-Fano n-folds by Borisov.