Coxeter theory for curves on blowups of \mathbb{P}^r

Abstract: We investigate the study of smooth irreducible rational curves in

Y_{s}^{r}

, a general blowup of

m a t h b b P^{r}

at

s

general points, whose normal bundle splits as a direct sum of line bundles all of degree

i

, for

i i n - 1, 0, 1

: we call these

(i)

-curves. We systematically exploit the theory of Coxeter groups applied to the Chow space of curves in

Y_{s}^{r}

, which provides us with a useful bilinear form that helps to expose properties of

(i)

-curves. We are particularly interested in the orbits of lines (through

1 - i

points) under the Weyl group of standard Cremona transformations (all of which are

(i)

-curves): we call these

(i)

-Weyl lines. We prove various theorems related to understanding when an

(i)

-curve is an

(i)

-Weyl line, via numerical criteria expressed in terms of the bilinear form. We obtain stronger results for

r = 3

, where we prove a Noether-type inequality that gives a sharp criterion.

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