Arrangements of rational sections over curves and the varieties they define (Q661144)

An arrangement of lines in the plane can be thought as an abstract curve \(C\) (a projective line) and a finite collection of sections of the line bundle \(O(1)\). In this sense the notion of arrangement of lines can be generalized to the notion of arrangement of rational sections over a nonsingular projective curve \(C\): a finite set of sections of a line bundle \(L\) on \(C\). In this paper a one-to-one correspondence between arrangements of \(d\) sections and irreducible curves in \(M_{0,d+1}\) (the moduli of genus zero curves with \(d+1\) marked ordered points) is provided. Furthermore, given an arrangement of sections, say \(A\), various families of nonsingular projective surfaces are associated to \(A\). The study of the invariants of these surfaces shows examples of étale simply connected surfaces of general type in any positive characteristic violating any sort of Miyaoka-Yau inequality.