The classification of numerically elementary (1)(-1)-curves with b4<2bc1b4<2bc_1

Let (δ;μ1,,μr)(\delta;\mu_1,\ldots,\mu_r) be the numerical data of an elementary (1)(-1)-curve in the relevant blow-up of projective space, where δ\delta is its degree and μ1\mu_1 is the largest multiplicity among the assigned points. Such a curve is numerically elementary when its numerical data satisfy the equalities defining an elementary (1)(-1)-curve.

Classification conjecture. The only numerically elementary (1)(-1)-curves satisfying δ<2μ1\delta<2\mu_1 are the lines through two points.

The examples preceding the conjecture exhibit numerical sequences satisfying the defining equalities but not corresponding to elementary (1)(-1)-curves; together with the stated proposition, they motivate this proposed classification.

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Antonio Laface and Luca Ugaglia, “Elementary (-1)-curves of P^3”, arXiv:math/0605106 (2006).

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