On finiteness of curves with high canonical degree on a surface

DOI10.1007/S10711-016-0142-8zbMATH Open1360.14019arXiv1406.7478OpenAlexW1951459432MaRDI QIDQ303983FDOQ303983

Authors: Xavier Roulleau, Ciro Ciliberto 

Publication date: 23 August 2016

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The emph{canonical degree} of a curve $C$ on a surface $X$ is $K_{X}cdotC$. Our main result, is that on a surface of general type there are only finitely many curves with negative self--intersection and sufficiently large canonical degree. Our proof strongly relies on results by Miyaoka. We extend our result both to surfaces not of general type and to non--negative curves, and give applications, e.g. to finiteness of negative curves on a general blow--up of $mathbb{P}^2$ at $ngeq10$ general points (a result related to emph{Nagata's Conjecture}). We finally discuss a conjecture by Vojta concerning the asymptotic behaviour of the ratio between the canonical degree and the geometric genus of a curve varying on a surface. The results in this paper go in the direction of understanding the emph{bounded negativity} problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7478

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zbMATH Keywords

bounded negativity conjectureNagata's conjectureVojta's conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) Modular and Shimura varieties (14G35) Surfaces of general type (14J29)

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