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On polarized manifolds whose adjoint bundles are not semipositive. (English) Zbl 0659.14002
Algebraic geometry, Proc. Symp., Sendai/Jap. 1985, Adv. Stud. Pure Math. 10, 167-178 (1987).
[For the entire collection see Zbl 0628.00007.]
Let M be a projective variety of dimension n having only rational normal Gorenstein singularities and let L be an ample line bundle. With the line bundle K such that $${\mathcal O}_ M(K)$$ is the dualizing sheaf on M, it is shown that:
(0) $$K+(n+1)L$$ is nef ( $$= numerically$$ effective), i.e., $$(K+(n+1)L)\cdot C\geq 0$$ for any curve C in M;
(1) $$K+nL$$ is not nef if and only if $$(M,L)\simeq ({\mathbb{P}}^ n,{\mathcal O}(1));$$
(2) $$K+nL$$ is nef but $$K+(n-1)L$$ is not nef if and only if (M,L) $$= (a$$ hyperquadratic in $${\mathbb{P}}^{n+1},{\mathcal O}_ M(1))$$, $$({\mathbb{P}}^ 2,{\mathcal O}(2))$$ or M is a scroll over a smooth curve;
(4) The structure of M together with possible types of L is investigated when $$K+(n-1)L$$ is nef but $$K+(n-2)L$$ is not nef and when $$K+(n-2)L$$ is nef but $$K+(n-3)L$$ is not nef.
These results are on the line of the author’s works on the structure of polarized manifolds, and the ideas behind the proof are based on Mori’s theory of extremal rays, Mori-Kawamata’s cone theorem and Kawamata-Viehweg’s vanishing theorem.
Reviewer: M.Miyanishi

##### MSC:
 14C20 Divisors, linear systems, invertible sheaves 14N05 Projective techniques in algebraic geometry 14M05 Varieties defined by ring conditions (factorial, Cohen-Macaulay, seminormal)