A product formula for volumes of varieties
Yujiro Kawamata

TL;DR
This paper presents a new product formula for calculating the volumes of algebraic varieties, utilizing semipositivity properties to simplify the process.
Contribution
It introduces a novel product formula for volumes of varieties based on semipositivity, advancing the understanding of their geometric properties.
Findings
Derived a new volume formula for algebraic varieties
Simplified volume calculations using semipositivity
Enhanced theoretical framework for algebraic geometry
Abstract
A simple application of the semipositivity.
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TopicsPolynomial and algebraic computation · Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems · Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory
A product formula for volumes of varieties
Yujiro Kawamata
The volume of a smooth projective variety is defined by
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where . This is a birational invariant.
Theorem 0.1**.**
Let be a surjective morphism of smooth projective varieties with connected fibers. Assume that both and the general fiber of are varieties of general type. Then
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where , and .
Proof.
Let be an ample divisor on . There exists a positive integer such that is effective.
Let be a positive integer. By Fujita’s approximation theorem ([1]), after replacing a birational model of , there exists a positive integer and ample divisors on such that is effective and .
By Viehweg’s weak positivity theorem ([2]), there exists a positive integer such that is generically generated by global sections for a positive integer . is a function on and .
We have
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for sufficiently large .
Then
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if we take large compared with such that
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Remark 0.2**.**
If , then we have an equality in the formula. We expect that the equality implies the isotriviality of the family.
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- 2[2] Viehweg, Eckart. Weak positivity and the additivity of the Kodaira dimension for certain fibre spaces . Algebraic varieties and analytic varieties (Tokyo, 1981), 329–353, Adv. Stud. Pure Math., 1, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1983.
