Fibred rational surfaces with extremal Mordell-Weil lattices (Q2574937)

The authors give slope inequalities for fibred rational surfaces according to the Clifford index of a general fibre. They also determine completely the Mordell-Weil lattices (and give the corresponding Dynkin diagram) of maximal ranks for fibred rational surfaces of Clifford index two. To be precise, they consider a relatively minimal fibration \(f : X \rightarrow {\mathbb P}^1\) for a smooth projective surface \(X\) with \(p_g = q = 0\) and general fibre \(F\) of genus \(g \geq 2\). They divide into cases according to the value of \((K_X+F)^2\), whether \(F\) is hyperelliptic and whether \(F\) contains a \(g_4^1\). When \(F\) is non-hyperelliptic and \((K_X+F)^2 < 2g-2\), they show that \(X\) and \(W = \Phi_{| K_X+F| }(X)\) are rational ruled surfaces and the gonality of \(F\) is closely related to the degree \(c\) of the generator of a minimal ruling of \(W\).