On (i)-Curves in Blowups of \mathbb{P}^r

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Authors: Olivia Dumitrescu, Rick Miranda 

Publication date: 29 April 2021

Abstract: In this paper we study $(i)$-curves with $iin-1,0,1$ in the blown up projective space $mathbb{P}^r$ in general points. The notion of $(-1)$-curves was analyzed in the early days of mirror symmetry by Kontsevich with the motivation of counting curves on a Calabi-Yau threefold. In dimension two, Nagata studied planar $(-1)$-curves in order to construct counterexample to Hilbert's 14th problem. We introduce the notion of classes of $(0)$- and $(1)$-curves in $mathbb{P}^r$ with $s$ points blown up and we prove that their number is finite if and only if the space is a Mori Dream Space. We further introduce a bilinear form on a space of curves, and a unique symmetric Weyl-invariant class, $F$, (that we will refer to as the anticanonical curve class). For Mori Dream Spaces we prove that $(-1)$-curves can be defined arithmetically by the linear and quadratic invariants determined by the bilinear form. Moreover, $(0)$- and $(1)$-Weyl lines give the extremal rays for the cone of movable curves in $mathbb{P}^r$ with $r+3$ points blown up. As an application, we use the technique of movable curves to reprove that if $F^{2}leq0$ then $Y$ is not a Mori Dream Space and we propose to apply this technique to other spaces.

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