Unboundedness of fiber invariants of canonically fibred varieties of general type

Abstract

We answer an open question concerning the boundedness of canonical fiber spaces in high dimensions and prove the following: for any set of integers $n\ge 3$, $0<d<n$ and $N>0$, there exists a nonsingular projective $n$-fold $X$ of general type so that $X$ is canonically fibred by $d$-dimensional varieties $F$ with $p_g(F)\ge N$. This disproves the desired boundedness parallel to Beauville's boundedness theorem in the surface case.

arXiv comment7 pages, final version. Bulletin of the London Math Soc (to appear)