Introductory and survey papers:
Quick guide to positive cones of numerical classes(PDF)
Mihai Fulger,
Positivity in algebraic geometry
Robert Lazarsfeld, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge., vol. 48, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2004
An introduction to volume functions for algebraic cycles(PDF)
Brian Lehmann,
Structure of pseudo-effective and dual-positive cones:
The pseudo-effective cone of a compact Kähler manifold and varieties of negative Kodaira dimension
Sébastien Boucksom, Jean-Pierre Demailly, Mihai Păun, and Thomas Peternell,
J. Algebraic Geom. 22 (2013), no. 2, 201–248.
Pseudo-effective classes
and pushforwards
Olivier Debarre, Zhi Jiang, and Claire Voisin, Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly 9 (2013),
no. 4, 643–664.
Positive cones of dual cycle classes
Mihai Fulger and Brian Lehmann, 2013, arXiv:1408.5154 .
Morphisms and faces of pseudoeffective cones
Mihai Fulger and Brian Lehmann, 2016,
arXiv:1601.03314
Kernels of numerical pushforwards
Mihai Fulger and Brian Lehmann, 2013,
arXiv:1407.6455 .
Positive polynomials for ample vector bundles
William Fulton and Robert Lazarsfeld, Ann. of Math.
(2) 118 (1983), no. 1, 35–60.
Subvarieties with q-ample normal bundle and q-ample subvarieties
Mihai Halic, 2016, arXiv:1511.07524
Ample varieties and $q$-ample divisors
John Christian Ottem, Adv. Math.
229 (2012), no. 5, 2868–2887.
On subvarieties with ample normal bundle
John Christian Ottem, 2013,
arXiv:1309.2263 .
Examples:
Extremal higher codimension cycles on moduli
spaces of curves
Dawei Chen and Izzet Coskun, 2014, arXiv:1407.3450 .
Loci of curves with subcanonical points in low genus
Dawei Chen and Nicola Tarasca, 2015, arXiv:1501.02235 .
Extremality of Weierstrass points on genus-two curves
Dawei Chen and Nicola Tarasca, 2015, arXiv:1510.08061
Effective cones of cycles on blow-ups of projective space
Izzet Coskun, and John Lesieutre and John Christian Ottem, 2016, arXiv:1603.04808
Pseudoeffective and nef classes on abelian varieties
Olivier Debarre, Lawrence Ein, Robert Lazarsfeld, and Claire Voisin,
Compos. Math.
147 (2011), no. 6, 1793–1818.
The cones of effective cycles on projective bundles over
curves
Mihai Fulger, Math. Z. 269 (2011), no. 1-2, 449–459.
Extremal higher codimension cycles of the space of complete conics
César Lozano Huerta, 2015, arXiv:1601.07143 .
The diminished base locus is not always closed
John Lesieutre,
Compos. Math. 150 (2014), no. 10, 1729–1741.
Nef cycles on some hyperkahler fourfolds
John Ottem, 2015,
arXiv:1505.01477 .
On the cone of effective 2-cycles on
$\overline{M}_{0,7}$
Luca Schaffler, 2015, arXiv:1501.01736 .
Coniveau 2 complete intersections and effective cones
Claire Voisin,
Geom. Funct. Anal. 19 (2010), no. 5, 1494–1513.
Toric and tropical geometry:
Effective divisors on Bott-Samuelson varieties
David Anderson, 2015, arXiv:1501.00034
A tropical approach to the strongly positive Hodge conjecture
Farhad Babaee and June Huh, 2015,
arXiv:1502.00299 .
Correspondences between projective planes
June Huh, 2014,
arXiv:1303.4113 .
Pseudo-effective and nef cones on spherical varieties
Qifeng Li, Math.
Z. 280 (2015), no. 3-4, 945–979.
Volume-type functions:
Zariski decompositions of numerical cycle classes
Mihai Fulger and Brian Lehmann, 2013,
arXiv:1310.0538, to appear in J. of Alg. Geom.
Volume-type functions for numerical classes
Brian Lehmann, 2015,
arXiv:1601.03276 .
Convexity and Zariski decomposition structure(PDF)
Brian Lehmann and Jian Xiao, 2016
Positivity functions for curves on
algebraic varieties(PDF)
Brian Lehmann and Jian Xiao, 2016
Characterizing volume via cone duality
Jian Xiao, 2015,
arXiv:1502.06450 .
Other works
Positivity and excess intersection
William Fulton and Robert Lazarsfeld,
Enumerative geometry and classical algebraic geometry (Nice, 1981), Progr. Math., 24, Birkhäuser, Boston, Mass., 1982, 97–105.
$p$-ample bundles and their Chern classes
David Gieseker, Nagoya Math. J.,
43, 1971, 91–116.
Ample subvarieties of algebraic varieties
Robin Hartshorne, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 156, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1970.
The transversality of a general translate
Steven L. Kleiman,
Compos. Math., 28, no.3, 1974, 287–297.
Submanifolds with ample normal bundles and a conjecture of
Hartshorne
Thomas Peternell, Interactions of classical and numerical algebraic geometry, Contemp. Math.,
496, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2009, 317–330.