## Duke Mathematical Journal

### On Shokurov's rational connectedness conjecture

#### Abstract

We prove the rational connectedness conjecture of V. V. Shokurov in [20] which, in particular, implies that the fibres of a resolution of a variety with divisorial log terminal singularities are rationally chain connected

#### Article information

Source
Duke Math. J., Volume 138, Number 1 (2007), 119-136.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 9 May 2007

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1178738561

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-07-13813-4

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2309156

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1128.14028

#### Citation

Hacon, Christopher D.; Mckernan, James. On Shokurov's rational connectedness conjecture. Duke Math. J. 138 (2007), no. 1, 119--136. doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-07-13813-4. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1178738561

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