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Diophantine approximations and foliations

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In this paper we indicate the proof of an effective version of the Green-Griffiths conjecture for surfaces of general type and positive second Segre class (i.e.c 21 >c 2). Naturally this effective version is stronger than the Green-Griffiths conjecture itself.

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McQuillan, M. Diophantine approximations and foliations. Publications Mathématiques de L’Institut des Hautes Scientifiques 87, 121–174 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02698862

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