Nagata's conjecture on curves
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In mathematics, the Nagata conjecture on curves, named after Masayoshi Nagata, governs the minimal degree required for a plane algebraic curve to pass though a collection of very general points with prescribed multiplicity. Nagata arrived at the conjecture via work on the 14th problem of Hilbert, which asks whether the invariant ring of a linear group action on the polynomial ring
over some field k is finitely generated. Nagata published the conjecture in a 1959 paper in the American Journal of Mathematics, in which he presented a counterexample to Hilbert's 14th problem.
More precisely suppose
are very general points in the projective plane P2 and that
are given positive integers. The Nagata conjecture states that for r > 9 any curve C in P2 that passes through each of the points pi with multiplicity mi must satisfy
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The only case when this is known to hold is when r is a perfect square (i.e. is of the form r = s2 for some integer s), which was proved by Nagata. Despite much interest the other cases remain open. A more modern formulation of this conjecture is often given in terms of Seshadri constants and has been generalised to other surfaces under the name of the Nagata–Biran conjecture.
The condition r > 9 is easily seen to be necessary. The cases r > 9 and
are distinguished by whether or not the anti-canonical bundle on the blowup of P2 at a collection of r points is nef.
Categories: - Algebraic curves
- Conjectures
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