New Examples and Non-examples of Mori Dream Spaces when Blowing up Toric Surfaces

Abstract

We study the question of whether the blow-ups of toric surfaces of Picard number one at the identity point of the torus are Mori Dream Spaces. For some of these toric surfaces, the question whether the blow-up is a Mori Dream Space is equivalent to countably many planar interpolation problems. We state a conjecture which generalizes a theorem of Gonzalez and Karu. We give new examples and non-examples of Mori Dream Spaces among these blow-ups.