On semi-ampleness of the moduli part
Stefano Filipazzi, Calum Spicer
TL;DR
The paper advances Shokurov's conjecture on the semi-ampleness of the moduli part $M_X$ of a GLC fibration by combining foliation theory with stability concepts. It proves a 1-dimensional-base case via a Simpson-theoretic approach and provides a general framework in which the semi-ampleness of $ ext{det } f_*igl( ext{O}_X(mM)igr)$ and the semi-ampleness of $M+oldsymbol{ extepsilon} f^*c_1( ext{det } f_*igl( ext{O}_X(mM)igr))$ follow from the b-semi-ampleness conjecture in relative dimension up to $n-1$, together with base-change compatibility. It also ties the Kodaira dimension of the moduli part to the variation of the fibration and shows that, under suitable hypotheses, the moduli part nearly determines the fibration's geometry, including isotrivial or product structures after finite base changes. Overall, the work delineates conditions under which the moduli part attains semi-ampleness and clarifies the role of stability, foliations, and canonical bundle formulas in controlling variation and birational models.
Abstract
We discuss a conjecture of Shokurov on the semi-ampleness of the moduli part of a general fibration.
