Properties
Hirzebruch surfaces for n>0 have a special rational curve C on them: The surface is the projective bundle of O(-n) and the curve C is the zero section. This curve has self-intersection number −n, and is the only irreducible curve with negative self intersection number. The only irreducible curves with zero self intersection number are the fibers of the Hirzebruch surface (considered as a fiber bundle over P1). The Picard group is generated by the curve C and one of the fibers, and these generators have intersection matrix
so the bilinear form is two dimensional unimodular, and is even or odd depending on whether n is even or odd.
The Hirzebruch surface Σn (n > 1) blown up at a point on the special curve C is isomorphic to Σn-1 blown up at a point not on the special curve.
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