The rigid del Pezzo surface unicuspidal curve–almost toric fibration conjecture

Let MM be a rigid del Pezzo surface. An index zero (p,q)(p,q)-unicuspidal rational symplectic curve in MM is as in the source, and an almost toric fibration is a fibration obreakautomaticallyobreak automatically with base QQ as in Theorem~. Rigid del Pezzo surface conjecture. The following are equivalent: there \exists an index zero (p,q)(p,q)-unicuspidal rational symplectic curve in MM; and there \exists an almost toric fibration obreakπ:AQobreak\pi:\mathbb{A}\rightarrow Q as in Theorem~, where obreakAobreak\mathbb{A} is diffeomorphic to MM and QQ has consecutive edges pointing in the directions (mq2,mpq1),(0,1),(1,0)(-mq^2,mpq-1),(0,-1),(1,0) for some mZ1m\in\mathbb{Z}_{\geq 1}. In particular, there \exists an index zero (p,q)(p,q)-unicuspidal rational algebraic curve in MM. This proposes an analogue of the established correspondence for F1F_1 and CP2\mathbb{CP}^2 on the remaining rigid del Pezzo surfaces; the source does not provide evidence resolving the equivalence.

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Dusa McDuff and Kyler Siegel, “Singular algebraic curves and infinite symplectic staircases”, arXiv:2404.14702 (2025).

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