Multiple fibers on rational elliptic surfaces
Multiple fibers on rational elliptic surfaces
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有理椭圆面上的多纤维
DOI:
10.1090/s0002-9947-1988-0936813-6
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发表时间:
1988
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
W. Lang
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作者:
B. Harbourne;W. Lang
Our main result, Theorem (0.1), classifies multiple fibers on rational elliptic surfaces over algebraically closed fields of arbitrary characteristic. One result of this is the existence in positive characteristics of tame multiple fibers of additive type for several of the Kodaira fiber-types for which no examples were previously known. 0. Introduction. We work in this paper over an algebraically closed field k of arbitrary characteristic p. An elliptic surface f: X ) B is a fibration of a complete smooth surface X over a complete smooth curve B such that the generic fiber is a smooth curve of genus one. It is natural to wonder what kind of special fibers arise. We answer this in the case of rational surfaces, giving as a result examples of tame multiple fibers of additive type for every p > O and for all such types except Ib, b > 4 (cf. §5). To our knowledge, the only example heretofore recognized is of multiplicity 2 and Kodaira type IoX due to Katsura [Ka, L1] (although since our results were obtained we have seen a preprint of Katsura and Ueno [KU] giving other examples, mostly for p 7& 2, 3 and Kodaira type not Ib, b > 0). Any special fiber is an effective divisor on X and so can be written as mF = mEnjCj, where each curve Cj is reduced and irreducible and the coefficients are positive integers with g.c.d.({nj}) = 1. The positive integer m is the rnultiplicity of the fiber mF which is said to be a multiple fiber whenever m > 1. The form of the divisor F = EnjCj is very restricted. Such a divisor is an indecomposable curve of canonical type [Mu]; a topological classification of all such curves has been given by Kodaira [Ko] (cf. §5). We refer to the classes which arise in this classification as the Kodaira (fiber-)types. More generally, the Kodaira type of the fiber mF is mT, where T is the type of F. Over an algebraically closed field k it is known that any multiple fiber mF of multiplicity m on a surface X is of the form mT, where T is a Kodaira type and m is divisible by (and in characteristic 0 equal to) the order of the normal bundle OX(F) s OF E Pic° F of F in X, but the extent to which these conditions are sufficient for there to occur on some elliptic surface a multiple fiber of type mT is not known. Of particular interest to us here are the tame multiple fibers of additive type, these being fibers mF of multiplicity m where Pic° F is the additive group Ga of the ground field k and m equals the order in Ga °f OX(F) s OF. These are possible only if p, the characteristic of k, is positive (since Ga only then has ptorsion), but their occurrence is poorly understood. Received by the editors March 21, 1987. 1980 Mathematzcs Subject Classzficatzon (1985 Re"szon). Primary 14J25, 14M20, 14D99.