Curves disjoint from a nef divisor

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1465329015zbMATH Open1344.14007arXiv1410.4467OpenAlexW2963675143MaRDI QIDQ737121FDOQ737121

John Christian Ottem, John Lesieutre

Publication date: 8 August 2016

Published in: Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: On a projective surface it is well-known that the set of curves orthogonal to a nef line bundle is either finite or uncountable. We show that this dichotomy fails in higher dimension by constructing a nef line bundle on a threefold which is trivial on countably infinitely many curves. This answers a question of Totaro. As a pleasant corollary, we exhibit a quasi-projective variety with only a countably infinite set of complete, positive-dimensional subvarieties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.4467

zbMATH Keywords

nef divisorsCremona transformationsorthogonal curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Divisors, linear systems, invertible sheaves (14C20) Birational automorphisms, Cremona group and generalizations (14E07) Minimal model program (Mori theory, extremal rays) (14E30)

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