Weak boundedness theorems for canonically fibered Gorenstein minimal threefolds

Abstract

Let $X$ be a Gorenstein minimal projective 3-fold with at worst locally factorial terminal singularities. Suppose the canonical map is of fiber type. Denote by $F$ a smooth model of a generic irreducible component in fibers of the canonical map of $X$ and so $F$ is a smooth curve or a smooth surface. The main result of the paper is that there is a computable constant $K$ (independent of $X$) such that $g(F)\le 647$ or $p_g(F)\le 38$ whenever $p_g(X)\ge K$. The method heavily relies on both a Noether type of inequality and a Miyaoka-Yau inequality and that is the reason we only treat a Gorenstein object here. It is open whether the degree of the canonical map is universally bounded when the canonical map is generically finite.

AMS-Latex, 9 pages, Proc. AMS (to appear)