Global generation of adjoint bundles

Abstract

In 1988, I. Reider proved that for a smooth projective surface X and an ample line bundle L on X, Kx + 3L is globally generated and Kx + 4L is very ample ([12]). In fact his theorem is much stronger than this (see [12] for detail). Recently a lot of results have been obtained about effective base point freeness (cf. [1, 3, 8, 13, 14, 15]). In particular J. P. Demailly proved that 2KX + 12nnL is very ample for a smooth projective n-fold X and an ample line bundle L on X. [2] will give a good overview for these recent results. The motivation of these works is the following conjecture posed by T. Fujita.