birational geometry, minimal model program, singularities
Overview of the research
I am researching birational geometry of algebraic varieties. My early work is the explicit classification of threefold divisorial contractions. Currently I am studying singularities in the minimal model program towards the termination of flips, by focusing on minimal log discrepancies.
Papers
Divisors computing the minimal log discrepancy on a smooth surface
Masayuki Kawakita
MATHEMATICAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, Jul. 2017, Peer-reviewed
A connectedness theorem over the spectrum of a formal power series ring
Masayuki Kawakita
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS, Oct. 2015, Peer-reviewed