Pseudo-canonical variety

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In mathematics, a pseudo-canonical variety is an algebraic variety of "general type".

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Formal definition

Formally, a variety X is pseudo-canonical if the canonical class is pseudo-ample.

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For a non-singular projective variety, a result of Kodaira states that this is equivalent to a divisor in the class being the sum of an ample divisor and an effective divisor.

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