Flips and flops
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McKernan_Flips and flops.pdf
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Author(s)
Hacon, Christopher D.
McKernan, James
Date Issued
August 2010
Journal
Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 (ICM 2010)
Publisher
World Scientific
Citation
Christopher D. Hacon and James McKernan. "Flips and Flops." Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 (ICM 2010): pp. 513-539.
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
Flips and flops are elementary birational maps which first appear in dimension three. We give examples of how flips and flops appear in many different contexts. We describe the minimal model program and some recent progress centred around the question of termination of flips.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
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