Reducibility conjecture for Severi varieties on rational elliptic surfaces

Let RR be a rational elliptic surface, and let V(R,L)V(R,L) denote the genus 00 Severi variety associated to a line bundle LL on RR. Reducibility conjecture. There exist line bundles LL for which V(R,L)V(R,L) has dimension 11 and is reducible. This would show that the irreducibility theorem for positive-dimensional Severi varieties on del Pezzo surfaces is sharp and does not extend to rational elliptic surfaces. The conjecture is presented as an expected failure of irreducibility in the rational elliptic-surface setting.

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François Greer, Joseph Helfer and John Sheridan, “Severi curves of rational elliptic surfaces”, arXiv:2306.03200 (2025).

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