Some line and conic arrangements and their Waldschmidt constants

Abstract

We study the Waldschmidt constants of some configurations in the projective plane. In the first part, we show that the Waldschmidt constant of a set $\mathbb{X}$ of $n$ points where at least $n-3$ points among them lie on a line is one of the following: $1, \frac{2n-3}{n-1}, 2, \frac{16}{7}, \frac{7}{3}, \frac{17}{7},$ or $\frac{5}{2}$. Together with the Hilbert polynomials, this gives a complete geometric characterization of $\mathbb{X}$. Next, we study some specific configurations whose Waldschmidt constants are bounded from above by $\frac{5}{2}$. Under this condition, we describe all configurations of $n$ points where $n-1$ points among them lie on an irreducible conic, and we also study some specific configurations of 9 points.