Moishezon manifolds with no nef and big classes
Jia Jia, Sheng Meng
TL;DR
The paper studies nef and big $(1,1)$-classes on compact complex manifolds within Fujiki's class ${\\mathcal{C}}$. It proves that for a bimeromorphic map $f:X\\dashrightarrow Y$ that is isomorphic in codimension $1$, if $X$ is Kähler with $h^{1,1}(X,\\mathbb{R})=1$ and $f$ is not an isomorphism, then $Y$ carries no nontrivial nef $(1,1)$-classes. This is then used to construct infinite families of smooth Moishezon threefolds $Y_d$ (and related examples) with no nef and big $(1,1)$-classes, by explicit birational modifications starting from a quintic threefold (and from $\\ abla\\mathbb{P}^3$), producing Calabi–Yau Moisheyon threefolds in some cases. These results provide counterexamples to a claimed universal nef-positivity statement in Kim22 and illuminate the limitations of nef positivity under codimension-one birational transformations, with implications for automorphism group analyses and the geometry of non-Kähler Moishezon manifolds.
Abstract
We show that a compact complex manifold $X$ has no non-trivial nef $(1,1)$-classes if there is a non-isomorphic bimeromorphic map $f\colon X\dashrightarrow Y$ isomorphic in codimension $1$ to a compact Kähler manifold $Y$ with $h^{1,1}=1$. In particular, there exist infinitely many isomorphic classes of smooth compact Moishezon threefolds with no nef and big $(1,1)$-classes. This contradicts a recent paper (Strongly Jordan property and free actions of non-abelian free groups, Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc., (2022): 1--11).
