General Type
A variety of general type V is one of maximal Kodaira dimension (Kodaira dimension equal to its dimension):
Equivalently, K is a big line bundle; equivalently, the n-canonical map is generically injective for n sufficiently large.
For example, a variety with ample canonical bundle is of general type.
In some sense varieties of general type are generic, hence the term (discrete invariants of varieties of general type vary in more dimensions, and moduli space of varieties of general type have more dimensions; this is made more precise for curves and surfaces). A smooth hypersurface of degree d in the n-dimensional projective space is of general type if and only if d is greater than n+1. In this sense most smooth hypersurfaces in the complex projective space are of general type.
Varieties of general type seem too complicated to classify explicitly, even for surfaces.
Siu (1998) proved invariance of plurigenera under deformations for varieties of general type.
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