Segre–Harbourne–Gimigliano–Hirschowitz conjecture for plane blow-ups

Let XX be the blow-up of PC2\mathbb P^2_\mathbb C in nn points in general position, and let HH be the pullback of a hyperplane while EiE_i are the exceptional divisors. For integers d>0d>0 and mi0m_i\geq 0, set

D=dHi=1nmiEi.D=dH-\sum_{i=1}^n m_iE_i.

Segre–Harbourne–Gimigliano–Hirschowitz conjecture. Either

dimH0(X,OX(D))=max(0,χ(X,OX(D))),\operatorname{dim} H^0(X,\mathcal{O}_X(D))=\max\bigl(0,\chi(X,\mathcal{O}_X(D))\bigr),

or there exists a (1)(-1)-curve CXC\subseteq X such that CD2C\cdot D\leq -2. This predicts the dimension of the linear system of plane curves with prescribed multiplicities at general points; its general validity remains open.

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Primary source

Johannes Krah, “A Phantom on a Rational Surface”, arXiv:2304.01269 (2023).

Additional references

8 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1804.03590, arXiv:1803.02746, arXiv:1707.00583, arXiv:1612.01906, arXiv:1610.05181, arXiv:1310.3552, arXiv:1008.2377.

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