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On the effective cone of $\mathbb{P}^n$ blown-up at $n+3$ points

Algebraic Geometry 2015-10-01 v2 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

We compute the facets of the effective and movable cones of divisors on the blow-up of Pn\mathbb{P}^n at n+3n+3 points in general position. Given any linear system of hypersurfaces of Pn\mathbb{P}^n based at n+3n+3 multiple points in general position, we prove that the secant varieties to the rational normal curve of degree nn passing through the points, as well as their joins with linear subspaces spanned by some of the points, are cycles of the base locus and we compute their multiplicity. We conjecture that a linear system with n+3n+3 points is linearly special only if it contains such subvarieties in the base locus and we give a new formula for the expected dimension.

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@article{arxiv.1501.04094,
  title  = {On the effective cone of $\mathbb{P}^n$ blown-up at $n+3$ points},
  author = {Maria Chiara Brambilla and Olivia Dumitrescu and Elisa Postinghel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.04094},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

22 pages. Revised version. Statement of Theorem 5.1 corrected. To appear in Experimental Mathematics