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Globally $F$-regular and log Fano varieties

Algebraic Geometry 2010-05-04 v2 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

We prove that every globally FF-regular variety is log Fano. In other words, if a prime characteristic variety XX is globally FF-regular, then it admits an effective \bQ\bQ-divisor Δ\Delta such that KXΔ-K_X - \Delta is ample and (X,Δ)(X, \Delta) has controlled (Kawamata log terminal, in fact globally FF-regular) singularities. A weak form of this result can be viewed as a prime characteristic analog of de Fernex and Hacon's new point of view on Kawamata log terminal singularities in the non-\bQ\bQ-Gorenstein case. We also prove a converse statement in characteristic zero: every log Fano variety has globally FF-regular type. Our techniques apply also to FF-split varieties, which we show to satisfy a "log Calabi-Yau" condition. We also prove a Kawamata-Viehweg vanishing theorem for globally FF-regular pairs.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0905.0404,
  title  = {Globally $F$-regular and log Fano varieties},
  author = {Karl E. Schwede and Karen E. Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.0404},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

31 pages, minor changes throughout. The presentation of section 5 improved. To appear in Advances in Mathematics

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