Reducibility conjecture for Severi varieties on rational elliptic surfaces
Let be a rational elliptic surface, and let denote the genus Severi variety associated to a line bundle on . Reducibility conjecture. There exist line bundles for which has dimension 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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Primary source
François Greer, Joseph Helfer and John Sheridan, “Severi curves of rational elliptic surfaces”, arXiv:2306.03200 (2025).
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