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The following theorem was proved in [4] over the complex numbers. It turns out that the proof given there works with very small adjustments in arbitrary characteristic.
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This paper owes its existence to Max Lieblich who suggested that perhaps the results of [4] also hold in arbitrary characteristic.
The author was supported in part by NSF Grant DMS-0856185 and the Craig McKibben and Sarah Merner Endowed Professorship in Mathematics at the University of Washington.
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Kovács, S.J. (2013). The Cone of Curves of K3 Surfaces Revisited. In: Bogomolov, F., Hassett, B., Tschinkel, Y. (eds) Birational Geometry, Rational Curves, and Arithmetic. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6482-2_8
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