Fulton's conjecture on F-nef divisors on the moduli space of pointed rational curves

Let M0,n\overline{M}_{0,n} be the moduli space of stable nn-pointed rational curves, and let δS\delta_S denote the class of the boundary divisor indexed by SS, with δS=δSc\delta_S=\delta_{S^c}. A divisor is written as D=SaSδSD=\sum_S a_S\delta_S. Fulton's conjecture. If

aIJ+aIK+aIL aI+aJ+aK+aLa_{I \cup J}+a_{I \cup K}+a_{I \cup L}\ \geqslant a_I+a_J+a_K+a_L

for every partition {1,2,,n}=IJKL\{1,2,\ldots,n\}=I\cup J\cup K\cup L into four disjoint nonempty subsets, then DD has an effective boundary representation

D=SbSδS,D=\sum_S b_S\delta_S,

with bS0b_S\geqslant0 for all SS. This is the original divisor-theoretic formulation of Fulton’s conjecture: it asserts that every FF-nef divisor is an effective combination of boundary divisors. The paper studies equivalent convex-geometric formulations; the general conjecture is presented as open, with special cases such as n=7n=7 treated separately.

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Primary source

Claudio Fontanari, Riccardo Ghiloni and Paolo Lella, “Towards Fulton's conjecture”, arXiv:1607.08437 (2016).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2016). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1012.0329, arXiv:math/0612251.

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