Morphisms of Projective Varieties from the viewpoint of Minimal Model Theory

This is a report on some of the main developments in birational geometry in the last few years focusing on the minimal model program, Fano varieties, singularities and related topics, in characteristic zero.

This article contains the notes of a graduate course on birational geometry focusing on the minimal model program. Topics covered include singularities, vanishing, nonvanishing, cone and contraction, base point freeness, finite generation, flips, termination, minimal models and Mori fibre spaces.

In this paper we prove birational rigidity of large classes of Fano-Mori fibre spaces over a base of arbitrary dimension, bounded from above by a constant that depends on the dimension of the fibre only. In order to do that, we first show that if every fibre of a Fano-Mori fibre space satisfies certain natural conditions, then every birational map onto another Fano-Mori fibre space is fibre-wise. After that we construct large classes of fibre spaces (into Fano double spaces o...

ICM lecture on minimal models and moduli of varieties.

Lecture notes of a course on birational geometry (taught at College de France, Winter 2011, with the support of Fondation Sciences Math\'ematiques de Paris). Topics covered: introduction into the subject, contractions and extremal rays, pairs and singularities, Kodaira dimension, minimal model program, cone and contraction, vanishing, base point freeness, flips and local finite generation, pl flips and extension theorems, existence of minimal models and Mori fibre spaces, glo...

We discuss the minimal model program for projective morphisms of complex analytic spaces. Roughly speaking, we show that the results obtained by Birkar--Cascini--Hacon--M\textsuperscript{c}Kernan hold true for projective morphisms between complex analytic spaces. We also treat some related topics.

I give a survey of Noether-Fano inequalities in birational geometry, starting with the original Noether inequality and up to the modern approach of Log Minimal Model program. The paper is based on my talk at the Fano conference in Torino in October 2002. This is the revised version: an erroneous reference in my paper published in the Proceedings of Fano conference is corrected.

In this paper we prove the birational rigidity of Fano-Mori fibre spaces $\pi\colon V\to S$, every fibre of which is a Fano complete intersection of index 1 and codimension $k\geqslant 3$ in the projective space ${\mathbb P}^{M+k}$ for $M$ sufficiently high, satisfying certain natural conditions of general position, in the assumption that the fibre space $V/S$ is sufficiently twisted over the base. The dimension of the base $S$ is bounded from above by a constant, depending o...

We develop the quadratic technique of proving birational rigidity of Fano-Mori fibre spaces over a higher-dimensional base. As an application, we prove birational rigidity of generic fibrations into Fano double spaces of dimension $M\geqslant 4$ and index one over a rationally connected base of dimension at most $\frac12 (M-2)(M-1)$. An estimate for the codimension of the subset of hypersurfaces of a given degree in the projective space with a positive-dimensional singular se...

This a collection of about 100 exercises. It could be used as a supplement to the book Koll\'ar--Mori: Birational geometry of algebraic varieties.