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Unbounded negativity on rational surfaces in positive characteristic

Algebraic Geometry 2021-03-04 v1

Abstract

We give explicit blowups of the projective plane in positive characteristic that contain smooth rational curves of arbitrarily negative self-intersection, showing that the Bounded Negativity Conjecture fails even for rational surfaces in positive characteristic.

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@article{arxiv.2103.02172,
  title  = {Unbounded negativity on rational surfaces in positive characteristic},
  author = {Raymond Cheng and Remy van Dobben de Bruyn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02172},
  year   = {2021}
}

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12 pages

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