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Main Authors: Chen, Xi, Gounelas, Frank
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21889
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  • For a smooth projective complex variety $X$, we prove that there exists a birational morphism $X\times X\to Y$ to a projective variety $Y$ contracting the diagonal $Δ_X\subset X\times X$ to a point if and only if $X$ has maximal Albanese dimension and irregularity $q\geq 2\dim X$. We also give necessary and sufficient conditions for arbitrary contractions of the diagonal and for the existence of a birational morphism which is an isomorphism outside the diagonal.