The list conjecture for negative curves on blown-up surfaces

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Let X=Bl⁡rYX=\operatorname{Bl}_r Y be the blow-up of a surface YY at rr points. Let C⊂XC\subset X be a nonexceptional integral curve with C2<0C^2<0. List conjecture. There exist a positive number ν=νX\nu=\nu_X and a nonnegative integer π=πX\pi=\pi_X such that CC is a (−n,p)(-n,p)-curve for some 1⩽n⩽ν1\leqslant n\leqslant \nu and 0⩽p⩽π0\leqslant p\leqslant \pi; equivalently, the possible negative curves belong to a finite list of types. This conjecture proposes simultaneous bounds on the parameters of negative curves and is presented as a consequence of the expected boundedness of negativity.

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Fulvio Di Sciullo, “On the influence of the Segre Problem on the Mori cone of blown-up surfaces”, arXiv:1110.0722 (2012).

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