Flops Connect Minimal Models



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Flops Connect Minimal Models

Yujiro Kawamata

Source: Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci. Volume 44, Number 2 (2008), 419-423.

Abstract

A result by Birkar-Cascini-Hacon-McKernan together with the boundedness of length of extremal rays implies that different minimal models can be connected by a sequence of flops.

Primary Subjects: 14E30, 14E05, 14J32

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