WITHDRAWN: On the Nagata Problem

Abstract: Nagata has conjectured that the following statement (N_r) holds for all

r g e q 10

: (N_r) if

P_{1}, ... P_{r} i n {m a t h b b P}^{2}

are generic points then any plane curve

C

satisfies

s u m_{1}^{r} m u l t_{P_{i}} (C) l e q s q r t r d e g (C)

. Nagata proved (N_r) whenever

r

is a perfect square. Here we prove (N_r) provided

r = k^{2} + a l p h a, 1 l e q a l p h a l e q 2 k, k g e q 3

and either (i)

a l p h a

is odd and

a l p h a g e q s q r t 2 k

or (ii)

a l p h a

is even and at lest 6, and the fractional part of

s q r t r

is at most

2 (s q r t 2 - 1)

.

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