On projective 3-folds of general type with small positive geometric genus

Abstract: In this paper we study pluricanonical maps of minimal projective 3-folds of general type with geometric genus $1$, $2$ and $3$. We go in the direction pioneered by Enriques and Bombieri, and other authors, pinning down, for low projective genus, a finite list of exceptions to the birationality of some pluricanonical map. In particular, apart from a finite list of weighted baskets, we prove the birationality of $\varphi_{16}$, $\varphi_{6}$ and $\varphi_{5}$ respectively.