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Relations in the Sarkisov program
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 August 2013
Abstract
The Sarkisov program studies birational maps between varieties that are end products of the Minimal Model Program (MMP) on nonsingular uniruled varieties. If $X$ and
$Y$ are terminal
$ \mathbb{Q} $-factorial projective varieties endowed with a structure of Mori fibre space, a birational map
$f: X\dashrightarrow Y$ is the composition of a finite number of elementary Sarkisov links. This decomposition is in general not unique: two such define a relation in the Sarkisov program. I define elementary relations, and show they generate relations in the Sarkisov program. Roughly speaking, elementary relations are the relations among the end products of suitable relative MMPs of
$Z$ over
$W$ with
$\rho (Z/ W)= 3$.
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