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Curves disjoint from a nef divisor

Algebraic Geometry 2014-10-17 v1

Abstract

On a projective surface it is well-known that the set of curves orthogonal to a nef line bundle is either finite or uncountable. We show that this dichotomy fails in higher dimension by constructing a nef line bundle on a threefold which is trivial on countably infinitely many curves. This answers a question of Totaro. As a pleasant corollary, we exhibit a quasi-projective variety with only a countably infinite set of complete, positive-dimensional subvarieties.

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@article{arxiv.1410.4467,
  title  = {Curves disjoint from a nef divisor},
  author = {John Lesieutre and John Christian Ottem},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.4467},
  year   = {2014}
}

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7 pages; comments welcome!

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