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Birational Geometry, Rational Curves, and Arithmetic pp 171–203Cite as

Around and Beyond the Canonical Class

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This survey is an invitation to recent developments in higher dimensional birational geometry.

Mathematics Subject Classification codes (2000): 14E30

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Acknowledgements

Many thanks to P. Cascini, A. Corti, K. Frantzen, D. Greb, A.-S. Kaloghiros, J. Kollár, A. Küronya, Th. Peternell, and S. Weigl for many useful comments and discussions, and to the referee for many useful remarks. I was supported by the DFG-Forschergruppe 790 “Classification of Algebraic Surfaces and Compact Complex Manifolds”.

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    Vladimir Lazić

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  3. Department of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Math. Sciences, New York University, Mercer St. 251, New York, 10012, New York, USA

    Yuri Tschinkel

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Lazić, V. (2013). Around and Beyond the Canonical Class. In: Bogomolov, F., Hassett, B., Tschinkel, Y. (eds) Birational Geometry, Rational Curves, and Arithmetic. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6482-2_9

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