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Sándor Kovács
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Take the family of cubics through those 9 points. On the blow up they form a basepoint-free linear system that defines an elliptic fibration. The exceptional curves give sections, so you have a relative group action. The exceptional curves generate a free group of rank 8. Any translate of any exceptional curve is another $(-1)$-curve.

Sándor Kovács
  • 42.9k
  • 2
  • 109
  • 155