Tropical Lagrangians in toric del-Pezzo surfaces

We look at how one can construct from the data of a dimer model a Lagrangian submanifold in $$(\mathbb {C}^*)^n$$ ( C ∗ ) n whose valuation projection approximates a tropical hypersurface. Each face of the dimer corresponds to a Lagrangian disk with boundary on our tropical Lagrangian submanifold, forming a Lagrangian mutation seed. Using this we find tropical Lagrangian tori $$L_{T^2}$$ L T 2 in the complement of a smooth anticanonical divisor of a toric del-Pezzo whose wall-crossing transformations match those of monotone SYZ fibers. An example is worked out for the mirror pair $$(\mathbb {CP}^2{\setminus } E, W), {\check{X}}_{9111}$$ ( CP 2 \ E , W ) , X ˇ 9111 . We find a symplectomorphism of $$\mathbb {CP}^2{\setminus } E$$ CP 2 \ E interchanging $$L_{T^2}$$ L T 2 and a SYZ fiber. Evidence is provided that this symplectomorphism is mirror to fiberwise Fourier–Mukai transform on $${\check{X}}_{9111}$$ X ˇ 9111 .

Conic bundles that are not birational to numerical Calabi--Yau pairs

Let $X$ be a general conic bundle over the projective plane with branch curve of degree at least 19. We prove that there is no normal projective variety $Y$ that is birational to $X$ and such that some multiple of its anticanonical divisor is effective. We also give such examples for 2-dimensional conic bundles defined over a number field.

Rational Surfaces with Anticanonical Divisor not Reduced

We prove the finite generation of the monoid of effective divisor classes on a smooth projective rational surface X endowed with an anticanonical divisor such that all its irreducible components are of multiplicity one except one which has multiplicity two. In almost all cases, the self-intersection of a canonical divisor KX on X is strictly negative, hence - KX is neither ample nor numerically effective. In particular, X is not a Del Pezzo surface. Furthermore, it is shown that the first cohomology group of a numerically effective divisor vanishes; as a consequence, we determine the dimension of the complete linear system associated to any given divisor on X

The family of lines on the Fano threefold V5

A smooth projective algebraic 3-fold V over the field C is called a Fano 3-fold if the anticanonical divisor — Kv is ample. The integer g = g(V) = ½(- Kv)3 is called the genus of the Fano 3-fold V. The maximal integer r ≧ 1 such that ϑ(— Kv)≃ ℋ r for some (ample) invertible sheaf ℋ ε Pic V is called the index of the Fano 3-fold V. Let V be a Fano 3-fold of the index r = 2 and the genus g = 21 which has the second Betti number b2(V) = 1. Then V can be embedded in P6 with degree 5, by the linear system |ℋ|, where ϑ(— Kv)≃ ℋ2 (see Iskovskih [5]). We denote this Fano 3-fold V by V5.