Seshadri constants on ruled surfaces: the rational and the elliptic cases (Q2491168)

Let \(X\) be a smooth projective variety of dimension \(n\), and let \(L\) be a nef divisor on \(X\). Then the Seshadri constant \(\varepsilon(L,x)\) of \(L\) at \(x\in X\) is defined as follows: \[ \varepsilon(L,x)=\text{sup}\{ \varepsilon\;| \;\text{\(\mu^{*}L-\varepsilon E\) is nef}\}, \] where \(\mu: X^{\prime}\to X\) is the blowing up of \(X\) at \(x\) and \(E\) is the exceptional divisor. The Seshadri constants are very useful to obtain results about the global generation, very ampleness, or \(s\)-jet generating of adjoint linear systems. But it is very difficult to compute these explicitly. In this paper, the author studies the Seshadri constants on geometrically ruled surfaces and obtains the following results: The author gives explicit values when the ruled surface corresponds to an unstable vector bundle. Furthermore the author gives bounds for the Seshadri constants on the stable (or semi-stable) ruled surfaces. As applications, the author completely determines the value of the Seshadri constants on the rational and elliptic ruled surfaces.