The divisor is understood to be on ; the printed “on ” is a typo. Combining asymptotic Riemann–Roch with cohomology growth for nef twists gives
Since a nef divisor has nonnegative top self-intersection number, this limit is positive exactly when . This is the volume of a nef divisor criterion.
Each is a nef divisor. If , the volume of a nef divisor formula gives quadratic growth of . Multiplication by the section of injects this space into , so the birational linear system criterion for bigness makes the Iitaka dimension of two.
Conversely, if , some , and hence its movable part , has a two-dimensional image. If , the previous part would make basepoint-free with image a curve; this is impossible. Since is nef, , hence .
If all and one has positive dimension, the preceding part supplies a curve image. The just-proved equivalence excludes dimension two, so . Conversely excludes every positive and requires a positive-dimensional linear system. Thus