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The components of mKv for threefolds with x(V) = 0

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

P. M. H. Wilson
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1SB, U.K.

Abstract

For V a complex algebraic threefold with k( V) = 0 and having at least one minimal model (for definition, see below), we show that (except possibly in one rather special case) the components of an effective divisor mKv are birationally ruled surfaces.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1985

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