%0 Journal Article %T The diminished base locus is not always closed %A John Lesieutre %J Mathematics %D 2012 %I arXiv %R 10.1112/S0010437X14007544 %X We exhibit a pseudoeffective R-divisor D_\lambda on the blow-up of P^3 at nine very general points which lies in the closed movable cone and has negative intersections with a set of curves whose union is Zariski dense. It follows that the diminished base locus B_-(D_\lambda) = \bigcup_{A ample}} B(D_\lambda+A) is not closed and that D_\lambda does not admit a Zariski decomposition in even a very weak sense. By a similar method, we construct an R-divisor on the family of blow-ups of P^2 at ten distinct points, which is nef on a very general fiber but fails to be nef over countably many prime divisors in the base. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3738v2