Segre–Harbourne–Gimigliano–Hirschowitz conjecture

Let f ⁣:XrP2f\colon X_r\to \mathbb P^2 be the blow-up of P2\mathbb P^2 at rr very general points, with exceptional divisors E1,,ErE_1,\ldots,E_r, and let HH be the pullback of the hyperplane class. Write

D=dHi=1rmiEi=(d;m1,,mr),D=dH-\sum_{i=1}^r m_iE_i=(d;m_1,\ldots,m_r),

where m1m2mr>0m_1\geq m_2\geq\cdots\geq m_r>0, and define

vdim(D)=D(DKXr)2=d(d+3)2i=1rmi(mi+1)2.\operatorname{vdim}(D)=\frac{D\cdot(D-K_{X_r})}{2}=\frac{d(d+3)}{2}-\sum_{i=1}^r\frac{m_i(m_i+1)}{2}.

SHGH Conjecture. If r3r\geq 3 and d>m1+m2+m3d>m_1+m_2+m_3, then

dimD=max{1,vdim(D)}.\dim|D|=\max\{-1,\operatorname{vdim}(D)\}.

The conjecture concerns the expected dimension of linear systems on blow-ups of the plane. It has been verified for r9r\leq 9 points, while the general case remains open.

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Primary source

Thomas Bauer, Brian Harbourne, Alex Küronya and Matthias Nickel, “Bounded volume denominators and bounded negativity”, arXiv:1904.07486 (2019).

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