Surfaces and semigroups at infinity

Abstract

We introduce surfaces at infinity, a class of rational surfaces linked to curves with only one place at infinity. The cone of curves of these surfaces is finite polyhedral and minimally generated. We also introduce the $\delta$-semigroup of a surface at infinity and consider the set $\mathcal{S}$ of surfaces at infinity having the same $\delta$-semigroup. We study how the generators of the cone of curves of surfaces in $\mathcal{S}$ behave.