Abstract:
The famous $4n^2$-inequality is extended to generic
complete intersection singularities: we show that the multiplicity
of the self-intersection of a mobile linear system $\Sigma$ with a
maximal singularity (i.e. the pair $(X,frac{1}{n}\Sigma)$ is not
canonical, where $X$ is the ambient variety) is greater than
$4n^2\mu$, where $\mu$ is the multiplicity of the singular
point. This inequality essentially simplifies proving birational
rigidity for many types of singular Fano varieties.