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To explain some of the main ideas of the Minimal Model Program and some of the tools used, we use some basic facts from graph theory. In particular, we describe a directed graph associated to the category of projective varieties. For this reason, we recall some of the basic definitions in graph theory.
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Note that this definition is slightly different than the one given in [2].
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Note that a priori λ might be an irrational number. On the other hand, Theorem 2.2 holds in a more general context, assuming that \(\Delta\) is a \(\mathbb{R}\)-divisor rather than a \(\mathbb{Q}\)-divisor.
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The main idea, on why we can do this, relies on the fact that any divisor contracted by the birational contraction X −−→ X′ in contained in the stable base locus of \(K_{X} + \Delta\).
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These are the notes for the CIMPA-CIMAT-ICTP School “Moduli of Curves” in Guanajuato, México, 22 February–4 March 2016. I would like to thank the organisers and all the participants for the invitation and for giving me the opportunity to present this material at the school. I would also like to thank the referee for reading a preliminary version of these notes and providing many useful comments.
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Cascini, P. (2017). Higher Dimensional Varieties and their Moduli Spaces. In: Brambila Paz, L., Ciliberto, C., Esteves, E., Melo, M., Voisin, C. (eds) Moduli of Curves. Lecture Notes of the Unione Matematica Italiana, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59486-6_2
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