The degree-uniform bounded negativity conjecture for smooth surfaces in projective three-space

Fix an integer d1d\geq1. A smooth surface of degree dd in P3\mathbb{P}^3 is a smooth projective surface embedded in P3\mathbb{P}^3 by a homogeneous equation of degree dd; its negativity bound is a uniform lower bound for self-intersection numbers of its curves.

Degree-uniform bounded negativity conjecture. There exists a constant cdc_d, depending only on dd, such that every smooth surface of degree dd in P3\mathbb{P}^3 has negativity bound cdc_d.

This conjecture seeks a bound uniform across the connected family of smooth degree-dd surfaces, rather than a bound chosen separately for each surface. The source gives no resolution evidence.

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Zhenjian Wang, “Self-intersection Number of Negative Curves on Fermat Surfaces”, arXiv:2501.00319 (2026).

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