Harbourne–Janssen–Nagel–Schenck conjecture on negative curves on blowups of Hirzebruch surfaces
Let be the -th Hirzebruch surface, with denoting its negative section. Let be points in very general position, and let
be the blowup at the points in . Harbourne–Janssen–Nagel–Schenck conjecture. If is an integral curve on such that , then is either the strict transform of or a -curve. This predicts that the negative curves on these blowups are exhausted by the distinguished negative section and exceptional-type curves; the supplied text gives no resolution status, so the conjecture is treated as open.
References
Primary source
Cyril J. Jacob, Bivas Khan and Ronnie Sebastian, “Seshadri constants and negative curves on blowups of ruled surfaces”, arXiv:2501.05065 (2025).
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