For a smooth germ of algebraic variety $(X,0)$ and a hypersurface $(f=0)$ in $X$, with an isolated singularity at $0$, Teissier conjectured a lower bound for the Arnold exponent of $f$ in terms of the Arnold exponent of a hyperplane section $f\vert_H$ and the invariant $θ_0(f)$ of the hypersurface. By building on an approach due to Loeser, we prove the conjecture in the case of log canonical thresholds.
Using a result of Demailly and Pham on log canonical thresholds, we give an upper bound for polar invariants from a question of Teissier on hypersurface singularities. This provides a weaker alternative upper bound compared to the one conjectured by Teissier.
We establish a relative spannedness for log canonical pairs, which is a generalization of the basepoint-freeness for varieties with log-terminal singularities by Andreatta--Wiśniewski. Moreover, we establish a generalization for quasi-log canonical pairs.
We show that any union of slc strata of a Fano log pair with semi-log canonical singularities is simply connected. In particular, Fano log pairs with semi-log canonical singularities are simply connected, which confirms a conjecture of the first author.
We establish a kind of subadjunction formula for quasi-log canonical pairs. As an application, we prove that a connected projective quasi-log canonical pair whose quasi-log canonical class is anti-ample is simply connected and rationally chain connected. We also supplement the cone theorem for quasi-log canonical pairs. More precisely, we prove that every negative extremal ray is spanned by a rational curve. Finally, we treat the notion of Mori hyperbolicity for quasi-log canonical pairs.
We compare the minimal model of a log canonical pair with the minimal model of its reduced boundary. These results are then used to study the existence of the minimal model of a semi-log-canonical pair using its normalization.
In this paper we show that the set of accumulation points of generalized log canonical thresholds for certain DCC sets comes from the set of generalized log canonical thresholds of dimension $1$ less of the same DCC sets.
In this paper, we show that Fujita's basepoint-freeness conjecture for projective quasi-log canonical singularities holds true in dimension three. Immediately, we prove Fujita-type basepoint-freeness for projective semi-log canonical threefolds.
We prove the Angehrn-Siu Type effective freeness and effective point separation for quasi-log canonical pairs. As a natural consequence, we obtain that these two results hold for semi-log canonical pairs. One of the main ingredients of our proof is the inversion of adjunction for quasi-log canonical pairs, which is established in this paper.
It is proved that the global log canonical threshold of a Zariski general Fano complete intersection of index 1 and codimension $k$ in ${\mathbb P}^{M+k}$ is equal to one, if $M\geqslant 2k+3$ and the maximum of the degrees of defining equations is at least 8. This is an essential improvements of the previous results about log canonical thresholds of Fano complete intersections. As a corollary we obtain the existence of K\" ahler-Einstein metrics on generic Fano complete intersections described above.
In this paper, we generalise the theory of complements to log canonical log fano varieties and prove boundedness of complements for them in dimension less than or equal to 3. We also prove some boundedness results for the canonical index of sdlt log Calabi-Yau varieties in dimension 2.
In this paper, we classify del Pezzo foliations on projective manifolds of rank at least 3 and with log canonical singularities in the sense of McQuillan.
We give a classification of the dual graphs of the exceptional divisors on the minimal resolutions of log canonical foliation singularities on surfaces. For an application, we show the set of foliated minimal log discrepancies for foliated surface triples satisfies the ascending chain condition and a Grauert-Riemenschneider type vanishing theorem for foliated surfaces with good log canonical foliation singularities.
Semi-log canonical varieties are a higher-dimensional analogue of stable curves. They are the varieties appearing as the boundary $Δ$ of a log canonical pair $(X,Δ)$, and also appear as limits of canonically polarized varieties in moduli theory. For certain three-fold pairs $(X,Δ)$ we show how to compute the PL homeomorphism type of the dual complex of a dlt minimal model directly from the normalization data of $Δ$.
