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Del Pezzo surfaces and Mori fiber spaces in positive characteristic

Algebraic Geometry 2021-10-04 v2

Abstract

We settle a question that originates from results and remarks by Koll\'ar on extremal ray in the minimal model program: In positive characteristics, there are no Mori fibrations on threefolds with only terminal singularities whose generic fibers are geometrically non-normal surfaces. To show this we establish some general structure results for del Pezzo surfaces over imperfect ground fields. This relies on Reid's classification of non-normal del Pezzo surfaces over algebraically closed fields, combined with a detailed analysis of geometrical non-reducedness over imperfect fields of p-degree one.

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@article{arxiv.1802.08436,
  title  = {Del Pezzo surfaces and Mori fiber spaces in positive characteristic},
  author = {Andrea Fanelli and Stefan Schröer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.08436},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

71 pages, minor changes, to appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc