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A Minimizing Valuation is Quasi-monomial

Algebraic Geometry 2019-11-19 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We prove a version of Jonsson-Musta\c{t}\v{a}'s Conjecture, which says for any graded sequence of ideals, there exists a quasi-monomial valuation computing its log canonical threshold. As a corollary, we confirm Chi Li's conjecture that a minimizer of the normalized volume function is always quasi-monomial. Applying our techniques to a family of klt singularities, we show that the volume of klt singularities is a constructible function. As a corollary, we prove that in a family of klt log Fano pairs, the K-semistable ones form a Zariski open set. Together with [Jia17], we conclude that all K-semistable klt Fano varieties with a fixed dimension and volume are parametrized by an Artin stack of finite type, which then admits a separated good moduli space by [BX18, ABHLX19], whose geometric points parametrize K-polystable klt Fano varieties.

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@article{arxiv.1907.01114,
  title  = {A Minimizing Valuation is Quasi-monomial},
  author = {Chenyang Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.01114},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Final version. To appear in Annals of Math

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