The hypertree generation conjecture for the effective cone of M0,n\overline{M}_{0,n}

Let M0,n\overline{M}_{0,n} be the moduli space of stable rational curves with nn marked points. A boundary divisor δI\delta_I is associated to a partition of the markings into II and IcI^c, where both parts have size at least two. Hypertree divisors are divisors on M0,n\overline{M}_{0,n} parametrized by hypertrees; an irreducible hypertree is one whose associated hypertree divisor is contractible by a birational map, and pullbacks of such divisors are also considered. Hypertree generation conjecture. The effective cone of M0,n\overline{M}_{0,n} is generated by boundary divisors and by divisors parametrized by irreducible hypertrees and their pullbacks. This would give a description of the effective cone in terms of the known extremal boundary and hypertree divisors, but the source only presents the statement as a speculation, with no resolution supplied here.

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Primary source

Morgan Opie, “Extremal divisors on moduli spaces of rational curves with marked points”, arXiv:1309.7229 (2016).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2013). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1004.2553.

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