We show that 3-fold terminal flips and divisorial contractions to a curve may be factored by a sequence of weighted blow-ups, flops, blow-downs to a locally complete intersection curve in a smooth 3-fold or divisorial contractions to a point.
In this paper we generalize the definitions of singularities of pairs and multiplier ideal sheaves to pairs on arbitrary normal varieties, without any assumption on the variety being Q-Gorenstein or the pair being log Q-Gorenstein. The main features
of the theory extend to this setting in a natural way.
We show that if $X$ is a smooth complex projective variety with Kodaira dimension $0$ then the Kodaira dimension of a general fiber of its Albanese map is at most $h^0(Omega ^1 _X)$.
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 $mgeq m_1$.
