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May 11, 2011 at 12:11 comment added Jesus Martinez Garcia You are absolutely right, thank you very much for your answer
Apr 27, 2011 at 10:09 comment added Francesco Polizzi a) Well, $-3 < -2$, right? :-) b) You can contract any smooth rational curve with negative self-intersection (by Artin contractibility criterion), but in general the resulting surface is singular, unless you are contracting a $(-1)$-curve. c) Look at BPHV (Barth-Peters-Hulek-Van de Ven - the new edition) p. 99-105
Apr 27, 2011 at 9:58 comment added Jesus Martinez Garcia Thanks, this is quite interesting. However: a) you say before that the irreducible components of the minimal resolution will have self-intersection $\leq -2$, but in the case of $\mu_3$ they have -3. Why is this? b) According to Castelnuovo-Enriques contractibility criterion, when you blow-up or blow-down, the only divisor involved is a -1 line. I follow Beauville book. I suspect this because it only works on complex smooth surfaces c) I like the continues fraction bit. I fail to find it in BPV, though. Do you know a source which talks about this?
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