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Big rational surfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2011-08-31 v2

Abstract

We prove that the Cox ring of a smooth rational surface with big anticanonical class is finitely generated. We classify surfaces of this type that are blow-ups of the plane at distinct points lying on a (possibly reducible) cubic.

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@article{arxiv.0901.1094,
  title  = {Big rational surfaces},
  author = {Damiano Testa and Anthony Várilly-Alvarado and Mauricio Velasco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.1094},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

Major revision; added examples of big rational surfaces that are not log del Pezzo

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