On the effective freeness of the direct images of pluricanonical bundles

We give effective bounds on the generation of pushforwards of log-pluricanonical bundles twisted by ample line bundles. This gives a partial answer to a conjecture proposed by Popa and Schnell. We prove two types of statements: first, more in the spirit of the general conjecture, we show generic global generation with predicted bound when the dimesnion of the variety if less than 4 and more generally, with a quadratic Angehrn-Siu type bound. Secondly, assuming that the relative canonical bundle is relatively semi-ample, we make a very precise statement. In particular, when the morphism is smooth, it solves the conjecture with the same bounds, for certain pluricanonical bundles.