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Unbounded negativity on rational surfaces in positive characteristic

  • Raymond Cheng ORCID logo EMAIL logo und Remy van Dobben de Bruyn ORCID logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 2. Dezember 2021

Abstract

We give explicit blowups of the projective plane in positive characteristic that contain smooth rational curves of arbitrarily negative self-intersection, showing that the Bounded Negativity Conjecture fails even for rational surfaces in positive characteristic. As a consequence, we show that any surface in positive characteristic admits a birational model failing the Bounded Negativity Conjecture.

Funding statement: Remy van Dobben de Bruyn was partly supported by the Oswald Veblen Fund at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Acknowledgements

We thank Johan de Jong, Joaquín Moraga, Takumi Murayama, Will Sawin, and John Sheridan for helpful discussions, and we thank the referee for suggestions to streamline the exposition.

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Received: 2021-03-15
Revised: 2021-08-14
Published Online: 2021-12-02
Published in Print: 2022-02-01

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