Simple cyclic covers of the plane and the Seshadri constants of some general hypersurfaces in weighted projective space (Q2162468)

In the paper under review, the authors study the rationality question regarding Seshadri constants for algebraic surfaces. Main result: Fix \(d\geq 2\) and \(m\geq 3\) and let \(X\) be a smooth complex hypersurface of degree \(md\) in \(\mathbb{P}(1,1,1,m)\) that is not passing through the singular point. Let \(L = \mathcal{O}_{X}(1)\) and \(x \in X\). If the pair \((X,x)\) is general, then \[ \sqrt{d}-\frac{d}{m} \leq \varepsilon(L;x) \leq \sqrt{d} = \sqrt{L^{2}}, \] where \(\varepsilon(L;x)\) is the Seshadri constant of \(L\) at the point \(x \in X\). In particular, for every integer \(d\) and \(\delta > 0\) there exists a point \(x\) on a polarized surface \((X,L)\) such that \(L^{2}=d\) and \(\varepsilon(L;x) \in [\sqrt{L^{2}}-\delta,\sqrt{L^{2}}]\). The main step of the proof is to show the estimate in the special case when \(B\) is a very general plane curve of degree \(md\), \(X=X_{d,m} \rightarrow \mathbb{P}^{2}_{\mathbb{C}}\) the simple cyclic \(d\)-tuple cover branched along \(B\), and \(L=\pi^{*}\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^{2}_{\mathbb{C}}}(1)\).