ON EXPLICIT BIRATIONAL GEOMETRY FOR POLARISED VARIETIES
Abstract.
In this paper, we investigate the explicit birational geometry for projective -lc varieties polarised by nef and big Weil divisors. We show that if is a projective -lc variety, is a nef and big Weil divisor with and is an effective Weil divisor such that or is nef, then we can find an explicit lower bound of and prove that is birational for , where is an explicit number which depends only on and . This result can be applied to polarised Calabi-Yau varieties, Fano varieties and varieties of general type, generalizing the results in [CEW22] and [Zhu23].
Key words and phrases:
polarised variety, volume, birational stability, boundedness2020 Mathematics Subject Classification:
14J32, 14J40, 14J451. Introduction
Throughout this article, we work over the field of complex numbers .
Given a projective -lc variety of dimension and a nef and big Weil divisor , there are two central questions in birational geometry:
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the universal lower bound of ;
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the universal such that and are birational.
Especially, the following three cases are the most interesting:
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is nef and big, i.e. is a variety of general type;
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is nef and big, i.e. is a weak Fano variety;
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and is nef and big, i.e. is a polarised Calabi-Yau variety.
When and has at worst terminal singularities, there are a lot of research relating to the above three cases; see for example [Bom73, Rei88] for surface case,[CC08b, Jia16, Che18, JZ22] for threefold case.
As for arbitrary dimensions, given that is pseudo-effective, the existence of the universal lower bound of volume and the universal birationality of polarised varieties are guaranteed by the following remarkable theorem given by Birkar [Bir23].
Theorem 1.1.
[Bir23, Theorem 1.1] Let be a natural number and be a positive real number. Then there exists a natural number depending only on satisfying the following. Assume that
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is a projective -lc variety of dimension ,
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is a nef and big integral divisor on , and
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is pseudo-effective.
Then and define birational maps for any natural number and any integral pseudo-effective divisor .
However, Birkar used potential birationality of divisors and properties of bounded family in [Bir23] to prove this theorem, which is not a practical way to calculate the explicit bounds of volume and birationality. Hence it is natural to ask under what conditions can we find the explicit universal bounds of volume and birationality.
The first result was given by Chen-Esser-Wang. In [CEW22], they gave the optimal bounds of volume and canonical stability for minimal projective -folds of general type with canonical dimension or . Later, in [Zhu23] the author used a similar method to give the optimal bounds for weak Fano varieties and polarised Calabi-Yau varieties.
However, these results only applied to varieties with at worst canonical singularities, and the canonical divisor has strict numerical restriction.
In this article, we will estimate the explicit bounds of volume and birationality for a general polarised variety with -lc singularities and .
The main results of this paper are the following:
Theorem 1.2.
Let be a projective -lc variety of dimension . Let be a nef and big Weil divisor on and be an effective Weil divisor satisfying one of the following conditions:
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;
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is nef.
Then each of the following conclusions holds:
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If and is not birational, then and is birational for ;
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If , then and is birational for .
Remark 1.3.
We can use this theorem to prove birationality as following: Let be a nef and big Weil divisor on a projective -lc variety of dimension and we want to know when or will be birational. If we know that induces a rational map from to an image of dimension , then we consider the following two special cases: If , then we take the effective divisor and conclude that is birational for ; If is nef, then we take the effective divisor and conclude that is birational for . (Roughly speaking, from the image of dimension to birational image, we only need to increase the divisor by times.)
We sketch the proof of Theorem 1.2 here. Given a projective -lc variety of dimension , a nef and big Weil divisor with , and an effective Weil divisor satisfying Condition or . First we take a sufficiently high resolution such that , where is the base point free moving part and is the fixed part.
The strategy for estimating the volume of and the birationality of is to slice by general members of for times and get a chain of smooth varieties with . By basic calculation of intersection number and Birationality Principle 3.4, we can reduce both problems to the curve . The remaining question is to estimate the lower bound of , which is the most difficult part in the proof. We will deal with this tricky part in Subsection 4.2.
As corollaries, we apply this theorem to the following three cases:
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is nef and big and for some ;
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is nef and big and for some ;
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and is a nef and big Weil divisor on .
Corollary 1.4.
Let be a projective -lc variety of dimension with nef and big and be a positive integer.
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If and is not birational, then and is birational for ;
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If , then and is birational for .
Corollary 1.5.
Let be a projective -lc variety of dimension with nef and big and be a positive integer.
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If and is not birational, then and is birational for ;
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If , then and is birational for .
Corollary 1.6.
Let be a projective -lc variety of dimension with , be a nef and big Weil divisor on and be a positive integer.
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If and is not birational, then and is birational for ;
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If , then and is birational for .
Corollary 1.4 generalizes the result in [CEW22]; Corollary 1.5 and Corollary 1.6 are generalisations of the results in [Zhu23].
Another application of Theorem 1.2 is to estimate the volume and birationality of a projective -lc polarised surface. Notice that given a projective surface and a -Cartier Weil divisor , if , then .
Corollary 1.7.
Let be a projective -lc surface. Let be a nef and big Weil divisor on with and be an effective Weil divisor satisfying one of the following conditions:
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;
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is nef.
Then and is birational for .
In the last section, we give some examples to show that in Theorem 1.2 our estimations are almost optimal.
2. Preliminary
2.1. Basic definitions
We recall some basic definitions in birational geometry in this subsection.
Definition 2.1 (Volume).
Let be a projective variety of dimension and be a -divisor in . Define the volume of as
If is nef, then .
Definition 2.2 (Singularities).
Let be a projective normal variety such that is -Cartier. Let be a resolution of and be the pullback of . The log discrepancy of a prime divisor on is defined as
The minimal log discrepancy of at a point is defined as
and the minimal log discrepancy of is defined as
Given , we say that is -lc if .
Definition 2.3 (Rational map defined by a Weil divisor).
Given a projective variety of dimension and an effective -Cartier Weil divisor on with , we define the rational map as the following:
By Hironaka’s big theorem, we can take successive blow-ups such that:
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is nonsingular projective;
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where is the base point free moving part and is the fixed part.
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the union of the support of and the exceptional divisors of is simple normal crossings.
Since is base point free, it induces a morphism . Hence we define as the induced rational map and define .
2.2. Moving part
The following lemma is useful to compare the moving part of a linear system with the counterpart of its restriction.
Lemma 2.4.
[Che01, lemma2.7] Let X be a smooth projective variety of dimension . Let be a divisor on , and be a smooth irreducible divisor on such that is not a fixed component of . Denote by the movable part of and by the movable part of on . Suppose the natural restriction map
is surjective. Then and thus
2.3. Projection formula
We need the following projection lemma to control the moving part of a Cartier divisor in a resolution:
Lemma 2.5.
[Che11, Lemma 2.3] Let be a normal projective variety and be a -Cartier Weil divisor. Let be a resolution of singularities. Assume that is an effective exceptional -divisor on such that is a Cartier divisor on .
Then
where is the reflexive sheaf corresponding to the Weil divisor .
Remark 2.6.
Especially, we conclude that , hence .
3. Birationality Principle
In this section we introduce a useful method to prove birationality of a linear system.
Definition 3.1.
[CZ08, Definition 2.3] A generic irreducible element of a movable linear system on a variety is a generic irreducible component in a general member of .
Remark 3.2.
By definition one can easily see that
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if dim , then is a general member of ;
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If dim (i.e. is composed with a pencil), then for some integer .
Definition 3.3.
[CC15, Definition 2.6] Let be a movable linear system on a variety . We say distinguishes two different generic irreducible elements if .
We will frequently use the following birational principle in [CC08a, Section 2.7] to prove birationality.
Proposition 3.4.
(Birationality Principle). Let and be two divisors on a smooth projective variety . Assume that is base point free. Take the Stein factorization of , where is a fibration onto a normal variety . For a sublinear system , the rational map is birational onto its image if one of the following conditions satisfies:
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and is birational for a general member of ;
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, distinguishes general fibers of and is birational for a general fiber of .
4. Proof of Theorem 1.2
In this section we assume that is a projective -lc variety of dimension and is a nef and big Weil divisor such that
Step 1: In this step we setup basic notations and make some assumptions.
Taking a small -factorialisation we can assume that is -factorial. Let be a sufficiently high resolution such that , where is the base point free movable part, is the fixed part. Take .
Inductively, for we can assume as a generic irreducible element of . By Bertini’s theorem, we have the following chain of smooth projective subvarieties:
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Since is general, we can assume that
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is big for each ;
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for and where and for .
Replacing we can assume and exceptional divisors are simple normal crossing.
Step 2: In this step and the next step, we reduce the problem to the curve and get our key inequality (4.4), which is essential to estimate the lower bound of and hence estimate and birationality.
If , then
is a nef and big -divisor with simple normal crossing fractional part.
Step 3: Define
Since
we have .
On the other hand, we can write where are effective exceptional -divisors with no common components. Therefore,
Since is an effective exceptional -divisor, by Lemma 2.5,
Hence
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In the remaining of this section we divide into two cases, the first case is , which is relatively simple. The second case is , which is much more tricky and take the most length in this section.
4.1. Case 1: and is not birational
In this case, we have as in Remark 3.2.
Step 4: In this step we estimate and .
Since is not birational, is not birational, hence and
Since and are nef, we have the following inequalities:
Step 5: In this step we consider the birationality of .
Recall that is an effective divisor. Applying Proposition 3.4 on chain (4.1) inductively implies that
4.1.1. Case 1.1: .
In this subcase we can modify so that . Since is general, we can further assume that , hence is birational if is birational.
By (4.4), is birational if and only if is birational. This is true when . Hence is birational for .
4.1.2. Case 1.2: is nef
In this subcase we can modify so that , and exceptional divisors are simple normal crossing. Since is nef and big for each and is nef, is nef and big for .
As the same with Step 2, by Kawamata-Viehweg vanishing theorem [Kaw82, Vie82] and induction, we have
By Lemma 2.4, we have
As in Step 3, we have
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Hence is birational if is birational. Since
this is true when . Hence is birational for .
4.2. Case 2:
The main difficulty in this case is that since may have singularities worse than canonical singularities, the exceptional divisors with log discrepancy less than may contribute negativity on , hence we cannot bound from below away from zero by just taking degree on (4.4) as in [CEW22, Zhu23].
Therefore, we need to consider the components in more explicitly and this is the motivation of the following lemma:
Lemma 4.1.
Let be a projective variety of dimension and be a nef and big -Cartier Weil divisor with . Let be a resolution such that is smooth and , where is the base point free moving part and is the fixed part. The linear system induces a morphism .
If is an -exceptional prime divisor horizontal over (i.e. ), then .
Proof.
Since is exceptional, by projection formula. As is horizontal over , . Let
Then
By definition of ,
hence we have
If , then since is an effective divisor and are nef divisors, which is a contradiction. ∎
Step 4′: In this step we estimate and .
The base point free linear system induces a morphism . Taking the Stein factorialisation, we can assume that has connected fiber. Hence is the general fiber of .
Recall that where are effective exceptional -divisors with no common components. Assume that where are horizontal over , and are vertical over . Since is general, . Hence
If , we let . Since is -lc, . Since is general, and are simple normal crossing for , hence . Therefore .
Let , where . Take .
Recall that for , we have the following inequality (4.4)
Therefore, we conclude
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We claim that . If not, since
we have .
Recall that , hence . Therefore,
By (4.6), since and , which is a contradiction. Hence .
Since and are nef,
Step 5′: In this step we consider the birationality of .
Recall that is effective. Applying Proposition 3.4 on chain (4.1) inductively, is birational if and only if
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distinguishes different generic irreducible elements of ;
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(II)
is birational.
4.2.1. Case 2.1: .
As in Subsection 4.1.1, Condition (II) is satisfied when . Hence it is sufficient to consider Condition (I).
If , then it is satisfied since
If , choose two different generic irreducible elements , of . is nef. Therefore, for , by Kawamata-Viehweg vanishing theorem [Kaw82, Vie82] we conclude
and the surjective map:
where
for .
If
then , which implies , hence can distinguish different generic irreducible elements of . By (4.3), can also distinguish different generic irreducible elements of .
Since , modifying we can assume . Since is a general member of , , hence can also distinguish different generic irreducible elements of . Therefore, Condition (I) is satisfied in this case.
In summary, if
then is birational. Since and , both inequalities are satisfied when .
4.2.2. Case 2.2: is nef.
As in Subsection 4.1.2, Condition (II) is satisfied when . Hence it is sufficient to consider Condition (I).
If , then it is satisfied since
If , choose two different generic irreducible elements of . As in Subsection 4.2.1, by Kawamata-Viehweg vanishing theorem [Kaw82, Vie82] we conclude
and the surjective map:
where
for .
Since is nef, . If
then , which implies , hence can distinguish different generic irreducible elements of .
As in Step 3 inequality (4.3), we have
Hence can also distinguish different generic irreducible elements of . Therefore, Condition (I) is satisfied in this case.
In summary, if
then is birational. Since and , both inequalities are satisfied when .
5. Proof of Corollaries
In this section we prove the corollaries.
Proof of Corollary 1.4.
We take and , hence is nef and big, is effective and is nef. The corollary follows from Theorem 1.2. ∎
Proof of Corollary 1.5.
We take and , hence is nef and big, and is nef. The corollary follows from Theorem 1.2. ∎
Proof of Corollary 1.6.
6. Examples
In this section we give some examples to show that in Theorem 1.2 our estimations are almost optimal.
Since our examples are hypersurfaces in weighted projective spaces, the involved singularities are cyclic quotient singularities. Hence we need the following basic lemma to compute the minimal log discrepancy of a cyclic quotient singularity. For a proof, we recommend the readers to [Amb05].
Lemma 6.1.
Let be a cyclic quotient singularity, then
Example 6.2.
Given , consider the general hypersurface
is smooth and . Let and . Then and is not birational. We have and is birational for .
Example 6.3.
Given , consider the general hypersurface
has cyclic quotient singularities of type . Hence by Lemma 6.1, . Denote . Then is -lc. Since , we can take the effective divisor . Let . We have and is birational for .
Acknowledgments
The author expresses his gratitude to his advisor Professor Meng Chen for his great support and encouragement. The author would like to thank Mengchu Li for correcting errors in the first version of this article. The author appreciates Wentao Chang, Hexu Liu, Mengchu Li and Yu Zou for useful discussions.
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