The cone conjecture for some rational elliptic threefolds (Q455614)

The Morrison-Kawamata cone conjecture describes the action of automorphisms on the cone of nef divisors and the action of pseudo-automorphisms on the cone of movable divisors a Calabi-Yau fiber space or a Calabi-Yau pair in the case of Calabi-Yau variety. The conjecture predicts that these cones should have a rational polyhedral fundamental domain for the action of the appropriate group. In this paper, the author verifies the conjecture for some threefolds which are blowups of \({\mathbb{P}}^3\) in the base locus of a net, i.e., 2-dimensional linear system of quadrics. The main result is the following. Let \(X\) be the blowup of \({\mathbb{P}}^3\) in eight distinct points which are the base locus of a net of quadrics. Based on a large extent on the explicit geometry of nets of quadrics in \({\mathbb{P}}^3\), the author proves: (1) The nef cone \(\overline{A(X)}\) is rational polyhedral and spanned by effective divisors. (2) If the net has no reducible member, the effective movable cone \(\overline{M(X)}^e\) has a rational polyhedral fundamental domain for the action of \(\mathrm{PsAut}(X)\).