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Toric Elliptic Pairs with Picard Number Three

Algebraic Geometry 2024-10-22 v1

Abstract

An elliptic pair (X,C)(X, C) is a generalization of a rational elliptic fibration XP1X \to \mathbb{P}^1 with fiber C,C, introduced in \cite{jenia_blowup}. Here, XX is a projective rational surface with log terminal singularities, and CC is an irreducible curve contained in the smooth locus of X,X, with pa(C)=1p_a(C)=1 and C2=0.C^2=0. These naturally arise as blowups X:=Ble(PΔ)X:=\text{Bl}_e(\mathbb{P}_\Delta) of projective toric surfaces, whose Newton polygon is elliptic. The order of O(C)C\mathcal{O}(C)|_C in Pic0(C)\text{Pic}^0(C) gives a quantitative way to check if XX is an elliptic fibration, which is equivalent to finiteness of the order. We call Δ\Delta a Lang-Trotter polygon when this order is infinite, in which case Eff(Ble(PΔ))\overline{\text{Eff}(\text{Bl}_e(\mathbb{P}_\Delta))} is non-polyhedral. The paper \cite{lizzie} shows there are exactly 33 elliptic triangles up to SL2(Z),\text{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z}), none of which is Lang-Trotter. The paper \cite{jenia_blowup} gives an infinite family of Lang-Trotter pentagons and heptagons, and various examples of other polygons when ρ(PΔ)>2.\rho(\mathbb{P}_\Delta)>2. Remark 4.7 in the paper asks if any Lang-Trotter quadrilaterals exist, and we answer this in the negative by studying the curves in the Zariski Decomposition of KX+C.K_X+C.

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@article{arxiv.2410.15301,
  title  = {Toric Elliptic Pairs with Picard Number Three},
  author = {Aditya Khurmi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15301},
  year   = {2024}
}

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82 pages, 22 figures