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The Kähler–Ricci flow through singularities

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We prove the existence and uniqueness of the weak Kähler–Ricci flow on projective varieties with log terminal singularities. We also show that the weak Kähler–Ricci flow can be uniquely continued through divisorial contractions and flips if they exist. Finally we propose an analytic version of the minimal model program with Ricci flow.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would particularly like to thank Chenyang Xu for many inspiring discussions and for bringing MMP with scaling to the authors’ attention. They thank Valentino Tosatti for a number of helpful suggestions on a previous draft of the paper. They The first named author is grateful to D. H. Phong for his advice, encouragement and support. He also wants to thank Yuan Yuan for some helpful discussions and comments. Finally, both authors would like to thank the referee for the careful review and many valuable comments.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08904, USA

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  2. Department of Mathematics, Peking University, Beijing, China

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  3. Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

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Research supported in part by National Science Foundation Grants DMS-0847524 and DMS-0804095. Jian Song is also supported in part by a Sloan Foundation Fellowship.

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Song, J., Tian, G. The Kähler–Ricci flow through singularities. Invent. math. 207, 519–595 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-016-0674-4

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