Wormhole conjecture for punctured W-surfaces

Let X1X_1 be a W-surface and let X2X_2 be the new W-surface obtained by the extremal P-resolution surgery, with KX12=KX22K_{X_1}^2=K_{X_2}^2 and χ(OX1)=χ(OX2)\chi(\mathcal{O}_{X_1})=\chi(\mathcal{O}_{X_2}). Suppose that the MMP is run on X2X_2.

Wormhole conjecture. The MMP on the new W-surface finishes in a minimal model and requires only flips; that is, both punctured W-surfaces live in the same moduli space.

This is the punctured-surface formulation of the wormhole idea: preserving the numerical invariants and using only flips should keep the two surfaces in one moduli space. The supplied text does not state whether this has been proved or disproved.

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Giancarlo Urzúa and Nicolás Vilches, “On wormholes in the moduli space of surfaces”, arXiv:2102.02177 (2021).

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