Flips for 3-folds and 4-folds

• Highly significant mathematical work
• Authored by leading researchers in the field
• Provides a complete account of the construction of 3-fold and 4-fold klt flips
• Presents the work of Shokurov on 3-fold flips in a more accessible manner
• 10-page glossary provided

Readership: Graduates and researchers in algebraic geometry

Edited by Alessio Corti, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London

1: Alessio Corti: Introduction
2: Alessio Corti: 3-fold flips after Shokurov
3: Osamu Fujino: What is log terminal?
4: Osamu Fujino: Special termination and reduction to pl flips
5: Christopher Hacon and James McKernan: Extension theorems and the existence of flips
6: Alessio Corti, James McKernan, and Hiromichi Takagi: Saturated mobile b-divisors on weak del Pezzo klt surfaces
7: James McKernan: Confined divisors
8: János Kollár: Kodaira's canonical bundle formula and adjunction
9: Florin Ambro: Non-klt techniques
10: Alessio Corti: Glossary
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Index