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The diminished base locus is not always closed

Algebraic Geometry 2019-02-20 v2

Abstract

We exhibit a pseudoeffective R-divisor D_\lambda on the blow-up of P^3 at nine very general points which lies in the closed movable cone and has negative intersections with a set of curves whose union is Zariski dense. It follows that the diminished base locus B_-(D_\lambda) = \bigcup_{A ample}} B(D_\lambda+A) is not closed and that D_\lambda does not admit a Zariski decomposition in even a very weak sense. By a similar method, we construct an R-divisor on the family of blow-ups of P^2 at ten distinct points, which is nef on a very general fiber but fails to be nef over countably many prime divisors in the base.

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@article{arxiv.1212.3738,
  title  = {The diminished base locus is not always closed},
  author = {John Lesieutre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.3738},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Revamped introduction, various simplifications. To appear in Compositio Mathematica (with minor changes)

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