Harbourne–Janssen–Nagel–Schenck conjecture on negative curves on blowups of Hirzebruch surfaces

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Let Fe\mathbb{F}_e be the ee-th Hirzebruch surface, with CeC_e denoting its negative section. Let P={p1,…,pr}⊂FeP=\{p_1,\dots,p_r\}\subset \mathbb{F}_e be rr points in very general position, and let

πP:Fe,P→Fe\pi_P:\mathbb{F}_{e,P}\to\mathbb{F}_e

be the blowup at the points in PP. Harbourne–Janssen–Nagel–Schenck conjecture. If CC is an integral curve on Fe,P\mathbb{F}_{e,P} such that C2<0C^2<0, then CC is either the strict transform of CeC_e or a (−1)(-1)-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.

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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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