The negative-curve conjecture for very general blow-ups of the plane

Let YYto be the blow-up of P2\mathbb{P}^2 at a set of points in very general position, and let CC be an integral curve on YY with negative self-intersection.

Negative-curve conjecture. The curve CC is a (1)(-1)-curve of YY, meaning that it is a smooth rational curve with self-intersection 1-1.

This is a weaker form of the Segre–Harbourne–Gimigliano–Hirschowitz conjecture and concerns the cone of effective curves on very general blow-ups of P2\mathbb{P}^2. The source presents it as a conjecture and gives new evidence, but does not state that it has been resolved.

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Tommaso de Fernex, “Negative curves on very general blow-ups of P^2”, arXiv:math/0512631 (2005).

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