Positivity criteria for log canonical divisors and hyperbolicity
  Let X be a complex projective variety and D a reduced divisor on X. Under a natural minimal condition on the singularities of the pair (X, D), which includes the case of smooth X with simple normal crossing D, we ask for geometric criteria guaranteeing various positivity conditions for the log-canonical divisor K_X+D. By adjunction and running the log minimal model program, natural to our setting, we obtain a geometric criterion for K_X+D to be numerically effective as well as a geometric version of the cone theorem, generalizing to the context of log pairs these results of Mori. A criterion for K_X+D to be pseudo-effective with mild hypothesis on D follows. We also obtain, assuming the abundance conjecture and the existence of rational curves on Calabi-Yau manifolds, an optimal geometric sharpening of the Nakai-Moishezon criterion for the ampleness of a divisor of the form K_X+D, a criterion verified under a canonical hyperbolicity assumption on (X,D). Without these conjectures, we verify this ampleness criterion with assumptions on the number of ample and non ample components of D. 
Steven S. Y. Lu and De-Qi Zhang
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