Gimigliano–Harbourne–Hirschowitz conjecture for effective divisors on blown-up planes

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Let X=X2,sX=X_{2,s} be the blow-up of the projective plane at ss general points, and let D in Pic⁡(X)D\text{ in }\operatorname{Pic}(X) be an effective divisor of the specified form. Write χ(X,OX(D))\chi(X,\mathcal{O}_X(D)) for the Euler characteristic of OX(D))\mathcal{O}_X(D)). A (−1)(-1) curve is a smooth, irreducible rational divisor CC with C⋅C=−1C\cdot C=-1. Gimigliano–Harbourne–Hirschowitz conjecture. One has

χ(X,OX(D))=dim⁡H0(X,OX(D))\chi(X,\mathcal{O}_X(D))=\dim H^0(X,\mathcal{O}_X(D))

if and only if D⋅C≥−1D\cdot C\geq -1 for every (−1)(-1) curve CC on XX. This is also known as the SGHH conjecture and is equivalent to a conjecture of Segre; its general status is not established in the supplied text.

References

Primary source

Olivia Dumitrescu and Nathan Priddis, “On divisorial (i) classes”, arXiv:1905.00074 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2019). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1709.03518.

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