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Extremal divisors on moduli spaces of rational curves with marked points

Algebraic Geometry 2016-04-29 v4

Abstract

We study effective divisors on M0,n\overline{M}_{0,n}, focusing on hypertree divisors introduced by Castravet and Tevelev and the proper transforms of divisors on M1,n2\overline{M}_{1,n-2} introduced by Chen and Coskun. Results include a database of hypertree divisor classes and closed formulas for Chen--Coskun divisor classes. We relate these two types of divisors, and from this construct extremal divisors on M0,n\overline{M}_{0,n} for n7n \geq 7 that furnish counterexamples to the conjectural description of the effective cone of M0,n\overline{M}_{0,n} given by Castravet and Tevelev.

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@article{arxiv.1309.7229,
  title  = {Extremal divisors on moduli spaces of rational curves with marked points},
  author = {Morgan Opie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.7229},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Gap in proof of Lemma 6.2 corrected; thanks to Angelo Felice Lopez for bringing this to my attention