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Inverse curve problems on del Pezzo surfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2025-11-13 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

We classify the number of kk-rational lines and conic fibrations on del Pezzo surfaces over a field kk in terms of relatively minimal surfaces and establish rational curve analogues of the inverse Galois problem for del Pezzo surfaces. We completely solve these problems in all degrees over all global, local and finite fields and provide new solutions of the inverse Galois problem in characteristic 2. Our results generalise well-known theorems on cubic surfaces.

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@article{arxiv.2511.08688,
  title  = {Inverse curve problems on del Pezzo surfaces},
  author = {Enis Kaya and Stephen McKean and Sam Streeter and H. Uppal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.08688},
  year   = {2025}
}

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66 pages, comments welcome

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