Rigid curves on ${\bar{M}}_{0,n}$ and arithmetic breaks

Abstract

A result of Keel and McKernan states that a hypothetical counterexample to the F-conjecture must come from rigid curves on ${\bar{M}}_{0,n}$ that intersect the interior. We exhibit several ways of constructing rigid curves. In all our examples, a reduction mod p argument shows that the classes of the rigid curves that we construct can be decomposed as sums of F-curves.

46 pages; final version

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