Cylinders in weak del Pezzo fibrations

Abstract

In this article, we shall look into the existence of vertical cylinders contained in a weak del Pezzo fibration as a generalization of the former work due to Dubouloz and Kishimoto in which they observed that of vertical cylinders found in del Pezzo fibrations. The essence lying in the existence of a cylinder in the generic fiber, we devote mainly ourselves into a geometry of minimal weak del Pezzo surfaces defined over a field of characteristic zero from the point of view of cylinders. As a result, we give the classification of minimal weak del Pezzo surfaces defined over a field of characteristic zero, moreover, we show that weak del Pezzo fibrations containing vertical cylinders are quite restrictive.