Seshadri constants of an anticanonical divisor of del Pezzo surfaces (Q874760)

Summary: Seshadri's constants, introduced by Demailly, give a rough measure of the positivity of a nef divisor at a point. In this note we compute the Seshadri constants of the anticanonical bundle at every point of del Pezzo surfaces. We emphasize the role of rational curves in our computations. We then present two examples where the positivity of the anticanonical bundle cannot be detected using rational curves.