Lattice polygons and families of curves on rational surfaces

DOI10.1007/S10801-010-0268-YMaRDI QIDQ644672zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Niels Lubbes, Josef Schicho

Publication date 7 November 2011

Published in Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0435

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic geometryfamilies of curveslattice polygonssurfacestoric geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational and ruled surfaces (14J26) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25)

Abstract: First we solve the problem of finding minimal degree families on toric surfaces by reducing it to lattice geometry. Then we describe how to find minimal degree families on, more generally, rational complex projective surfaces.

Review text

Every algebraic surface in projective space can be generated by a family of curves in projective space. In this paper, the authors construct all minimal degree families of rational curves on arbitrary rational surfaces. The authors solve this problem by reducing it to the case of polarized rational surfaces. The authors also present the solution to the particular case of finding toric families of minimal degree on a given toric surface. This problem is reduced to the `vineyard problem' that consists in finding the discrete directions which minimize the width of a given convex lattice polytope. Even though the result about toric surfaces is subsumed by the main result about rational surfaces the elegant and elementary proof of the vineyard problem justify its inclusion. This brilliant redundancy and the crystal presentation makes this a lovely article to read.

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