Let $X$ be a complex nonsingular projective 3-fold of general type. We show that there are positive constants $c$, $c$ and $m_1$ such that $chi (omega _X)geq -cVol (X)$ and $P_m(X)geq cm^3Vol (X)$ for all $mgeq m_1$.
In this paper, we prove that the group $mathrm{Aut}_mathbb{Q}(X)$ of numerically trivial automorphisms are uniformly bounded for smooth projective threefolds $X$ of general type which either satisfy $q(X)geq 3$ or have a Gorenstein minimal model. If $X$ is furthermore of maximal Albanese dimension, then $|mathrm{Aut}_mathbb{Q}(X)|leq 4$, and equality can be achieved by an unbounded family of threefolds previously constructed by the third author. Along the way we prove a Noether type inequality for log canonical pairs of general type with the coefficients of the boundary divisor from a given subset $mathcal{C}subset (0,1]$ such that $mathcal{C}cup{1}$ attains the minimum.
Let $V$ be a complex nonsingular projective 3-fold of general type. We prove $P_{12}(V)>0$ and $P_{24}(V)>1$ (which answers an open problem of J. Kollar and S. Mori). We also prove that the canonical volume has an universal lower bound $text{Vol}(V) geq 1/2660$ and that the pluri-canonical map $Phi_m$ is birational onto its image for all $mgeq 77$. As an application of our method, we prove Fletchers conjecture on weighted hyper-surface 3-folds with terminal quotient singularities. Another featured result is the optimal lower bound $text{Vol}(V)geq {1/420}$ among all those 3-folds $V$ with $chi({mathcal O}_V)leq 1$.
We consider the Noether-Lefschetz problem for surfaces in Q-factorial normal 3-folds with rational singularities. We show the existence of components of the Noether-Lefschetz locus of maximal codimension, and that there are indeed infinitely many of them. Moreover, we show that their union is dense in the natural topology.
In this note we initiate a program to obtain global descriptions of Calabi-Yau moduli spaces, to calculate their Picard group, and to identify within that group the Hodge line bundle, and the closely-related Bagger-Witten line bundle. We do this here for several Calabi-Yaus obtained in [DW09] as crepant resolutions of the orbifold quotient of the product of three elliptic curves. In particular we verify in these cases a recent claim of [GHKSST16] by noting that a power of the Hodge line bundle is trivial -- even though in most of these cases the Picard group is infinite.