Introduction

Yujiro Kawamata KAWAMATA, Yujiro: Professor at the University of Tokyo

Leader of a Global COE Program "Research and Training Center for New Development in Mathematics"

Research Field: Algebraic Geometry

Research Interest: Birational geometry of higher dimensional algebraic varieties

log varieties
algebraic fibre spaces, Iitaka conjecture, semipositivity theorem, birational characterization of abelian varieties
Kawamata-Viehweg vanishing theorem and applications, base point free theorem, Fujita conjecture
minimal model theory, existence and properties of minimal models, existence and termination of flips and flops, abundance conjecture, Zariski decomposition
deformation of Calabi-Yau manifolds, deformation of canonical singularities
derived categories of sheaves on algebraic varieties

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