Mori dream fibers and the geometric generic fiber

Abstract

We construct a smooth projective family of rational surfaces over ${\mathbb{G}}_{m,\mathbb{Z}}$. The Mori dream property of a fiber is determined by the torsion of the normal bundle of an anticanonical cycle. Over $\mathbb{C}$, the locus of Mori dream fibers is Zariski dense. For every prime $p$, every geometric fiber over a closed point of the reduction modulo $p$ is a Mori dream surface, whereas the geometric generic fiber is not a Mori dream space. In either setting, no restriction to a nonempty open subset is a Mori dream morphism. We also prove that, over any algebraically closed field, a projective fibration becomes a Mori dream morphism after shrinking the base whenever the set of points with Mori dream fibers is not contained in a countable union of proper closed subsets.

21 pages