An effective and sharp lower bound on Seshadri constants on surfaces with Picard number 1 (Q932851)

Let \(X\) be a smooth projective variety and \(L\) an ample line bundle on \(X\). Seshadri constants, introduced by Demailly, are an interesting and subtle measure of the local positivity of \(L\) at a point \(x\in X\). The Seshadri constant \(\epsilon (L,x)\) is the infimum of \((L\cdot C)/\text{ mult}_x C\) for all irreducible curves \(x\in C\subset X\). By Seshadri's ampleness criterion, \( \epsilon (L,x)>0\) and it is easy to see that if \(L\) is very ample, then \( \epsilon (L,x)\geq 1\). By [\textit{L. Ein, R. Lazarsfeld}, Journées de géométrie algébrique d'Orsay, France, juillet 20-26, 1992. Paris: Société Mathématique de France, Astérisque. 218, 177--186 (1993; Zbl 0812.14027)], it is known that if \(\dim X=2\), then \(\epsilon (L,x)\geq 1\) for all but countably many points on \(X\). In the paper under review, the author shows that if \(\dim X =2\) and \(\rho (X)=1\) then for any \(x\in X\) we have that: 1) If \(X\) is not of general type, then \(\epsilon (L,x)\geq 1\); 2) If \(X\) is of general type, then \(\epsilon (L,x)\geq 1/(1+\root 4 \of {K_X^2})\).