Chenyang Xu

Department of Mathematics

77 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

Email: c*y*xu*** (remove all *) AT mit.edu

Research Interests

Birational Geometry:

1. Geometric and Arithmetic theory of Rationally Connected Varieties.

2. Minimal Model Program and its applications to studying adjoint linear systems.

Here is my Curriculum Vitae and a short Description of my papers.

My Coauthors.

Current Project

1. Our project aims to study boundedness properties of volumes for pairs of log general type and its applications.

joint work with C. Hacon and J. M^cKernan

I. On the birational automorphisms of varieties of general type. 32 pages. Submitted.

II. Boundedness of volumes and Shokurov's ACC Conjecture (tentative title). (To appear).

III. Boundedness of moduli functors (tentative title). With the main theorem in II, we easily get the birational boundedness of the class of stable varieties (with fixed numerical invariants). In III, we then verify boundedness by proving a special case of abundance.

2. With C. Hacon, we recently show that the existence of log canonical closure . As an application, with Kollár's gluing theory, we verify the moduli functor of stable schemes satisfies the valuative criterion of properness. As a further generalization of some technique developed here, we settle the question of concluding semi-log canonical abundance from log canonical abundance in On Finiteness of B-representations and Semi-log Canonical Abundance.

3. With Chi Li, we modify a given test configuration of an arbitrary $Q$-Fano variety by operations rooted in the minimal model program. We show that the Donaldson-Futaki invariant will not increase during this process of modifications. As an application, we show that when the Picard number is 1, to check the semi-stablility and poly-stability, we only need to test on the special test configurations .

Publications

Most of my papers are on arxiv. However, I put some more updated versions here. This is the link of my papers on mathscinet.

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