Infinitesimal structure of log canonical thresholds

Jihao Liu, Fanjun Meng, Lingyao Xie

Published 2022-09-23Version 1

We show that log canonical thresholds of fixed dimension are standardized. More precisely, we show that any sequence of log canonical thresholds in fixed dimension $d$ accumulates in a way which is i) either similar to how standard and hyperstandard sets accumulate, or ii) to log canonical thresholds in dimension $\leq d-2$. This provides an accurate description on the infinitesimal structure of the set of log canonical thresholds. We also discuss similar behaviors of minimal log discrepancies, canonical thresholds, and K-semistable thresholds.