Seshadri constants and negative curves on blowups of ruled surfaces
Cyril J. Jacob, Bivas Khan, Ronnie Sebastian
TL;DR
The paper addresses local positivity on blowups of rational and ruled surfaces by computing Seshadri constants for ample line bundles on Blowups of $\mathbb{F}_e$ at up to $e+3$ very general points, and extends to certain decomposable ruled surfaces over curves of positive genus. The approach reduces the problem to a finite set of potential negative curves via effective anticanonical divisors and a carefully described set $\Delta$, yielding explicit formulas for $\varepsilon$ in terms of linear data $L=\alpha C_e+\beta f_e-\sum\mu_i E_i$, with refinements for the case $r=e+3$ (involving $A(L),B(L)$). The authors also establish fixed- and negative-curve analyses to bound $C^2$ on blowups, proving bounded negativity-type results for both blown-up Hirzebruch surfaces and more general ruled surfaces, and showing the effectiveness of the anticanonical divisor in broad regimes. Together, these results advance explicit local positivity calculations on blown-up ruled surfaces and contribute to bounded negativity conjectures in this setting.
Abstract
In this article we compute Seshadri constants of ample line bundles on the blowup of Hirzebruch surface $\mathbb{F}_e$ at $r\leqslant e+3$ very general points. Similarly, we compute Seshadri constants on the blowups of certain decomposable ruled surfaces over smooth curves of non-zero genus. We also prove some results related to bounded negativity of blowups of Hirzebruch surfaces and ruled surfaces.
