Laface's special-divisor conjecture for blow-ups of Hirzebruch surfaces

Let Fe,r\mathbb F_{e,r} be the blow-up of the Hirzebruch surface Fe\mathbb F_e at rr very general points. Let DD be a divisor satisfying the paper's condition; assume DD is effective. Using Laface's algorithm, which removes fixed (1)(-1)-curve components and copies of the strict transform C~e\widetilde{C}_e of the negative section, call DD (1)(-1)-special when the resulting divisor MM satisfies v(M)>v(D)v(M)>v(D). A divisor is special when its actual dimension exceeds its expected dimension. Laface's conjecture. DD is special if and only if it is (1)(-1)-special. This is the Hirschowitz-type formulation of the SHGH conjecture in this setting; its validity is not established in general.

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Primary source

Cyril J. Jacob and Ronnie Sebastian, “Linear systems on blow-ups of Hirzebruch surfaces”, arXiv:2601.21958 (2026).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2023–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2312.14555.

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