Summary: A NOTE ON TERMINATION OF FLIPS
VALERY ALEXEEV
The purpose of this short note is to discuss the following
Key Lemma 0.1. Let
(Y 0
, B0
) (Y 1
, B1
) (Y 2
, B2
) . . .
be a sequence of birational transformations such that
(1) Each (Y n
, Bn
=
N
i=1 bn
i Bn
i ) is a Q-factorial terminal pair with 0 < bn
i < 1.

Source: Alexeev, Valery - Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia

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