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Enriques surfaces over Z

Does there exist a smooth proper morphism ESpecZ whose fibers are Enriques surfaces? By a theorem of, independently, Fontaine and Abrashkin, combined with the Enriques-...
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K3 surfaces with good reduction away from finitely many places

Let S be a finite set of primes in Q. What, if anything, do we know about K3 surfaces over Q with good reduction away from S? (To be more precise, I suppose I mean schemes over Spec Z[1/S] whose ...
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Seeking concrete examples of "generic" elliptic fibrations of K3 surfaces

For me a K3 surface will be a smooth complex projective variety of dimension 2 that is simply-connected and has trivial canonical bundle. Given a K3 surface X, an elliptic fibration $\pi \colon X \...
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A question on an elliptic fibration of the Enriques surface

Let S be an Enriques surface over complex numbers. It is known that S admits an elliptic fibration over P1 with 12 nodal singular fibers and 2 double fibers. How can I see this ...
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Is there a purely inseparable covering A2K of a Kummer surface K over Fp2?

Let Ei:y2i=x3i+a4xi+a6 be two copies (i=1, 2) of a supersingular elliptic curve over a finite field Fp2, for odd prime p>3. Consider the Kummer surface $...
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Are all these K3 surfaces supersingular?

Consider all the smooth K3 surfaces given by X4+W2X2+XW3=f(Y,Z,W) or X4+XW3=g(Y,Z,W) over F2 with f or g homogenous of degree 4. There are a lot of choices for f and $...
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Reference for Automorphisms of K3 surfaces

I am looking for some introductory reference concerning Automorphisms (of finite order) on K3 surfaces. Any suggestion?
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K3 surfaces with small Picard number and symmetry

I am looking for examples of K3 surfaces that have a low Picard rank and at least one holomorphic involution. Here, low is no mathematically precise concept. I want to do computations with Monad ...
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K3 surface with D14 singular fiber

Let X be an elliptic K3 surface with D14 singular fiber. Do you know an explicit equation for such X? Also, how many disjoint sections such fibration admits? Any reference would be greatly ...
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Does h1(D)=0 imply numerical connectedness on K3 surfaces?

Let X be a complex K3 surface and D an effective divisor on X. We shall say: D is connected if its support is connected. D is numerically connected if for any non-trivial effective ...
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Is a Kummer surface over an finite field Fq supersingular iff Fq-unirational?

Let A be an abelian surface over an finite field Fq. In particular, I am interested in the case when A is a Jacobian variety. Is the Kummer surface KA/Fq Shioda-...
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Genus two pencil in K3 surface

It is known that smooth K3 surface can be obtained as two fold branched cover of rational elliptic surface E(1)=CP29¯CP2 along the smooth divisor $2F_{E(1)} = 6H - ...
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The existence of primitive and sufficiently ample line bundles on K3 surfaces?

Let S be a surface and L be a line bundle on S. For any zero-dimensional closed subschemes x of S, there is natural map from global sections of L to the global sections of L restricting to x (which is ...
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Is there a way to calculate the Picard Fq-number of an (rational or K3) elliptic surface?

Consider a finite field Fq and an elliptic surface E:y2+a1(t)xy+a3(t)y=x3+a2(t)x2+a4(t)x+a6,
where ai(t)Fq[t]. Is there a way ...
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What is the Artin invariant of an elliptic supersingular K3 surface?

Let X be a supersingular K3 surface over an algebraically closed field k of positive characteristic p. Artin proved in the paper https://eudml.org/doc/81948 that the determinant $\mathrm{disc}(...
Dimitri Koshelev's user avatar
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octic K3s inside cubic 4-folds

From the Thesis of B.Hassett I seem to understand that a smooth cubic 4-fold X containing a P2 should contain also a octic K3, but I cannot see a natural way by which this K3 octic could ...
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Question on K3 Surface

Is it possible to realize K3 surface as a ramified double cover of rational elliptic surface? If so, is there way to see an elliptic fibration structure on K3 from such cover? It seems to me one ...
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K3 over fields other than C?

How to classify K3 surfaces over an arbitrary field k?
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A K3 cover over a Del Pezzo surface

Let VP2 be the blow-up at two distinct points. (V is a Del Pezzo surface of degree 7.) Choose a smooth curve C from the linear system |2KV| and let SV be ...
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Are unirational K3 surfaces defined over finite fields?

Is every supersingular (thus unirational for char k=p5, from Liedtke) K3 surface defined over a finite field? I guess this is true for Kummer surfaces, for example, since ...
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The Jacobian surface of an elliptic surface

Let X be an elliptic surface over P1 without a section and let J be an elliptic surface over P1 with a section. Assume we have the commutative diagram \...
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Fixed part of a line bundle on a K3 surface

This question comes from Huybrechts' lecture notes on K3 surfaces, more specifically, chapter 2. Let X be a K3 surface (over an algebraically closed field k) and L a line bundle on X. ...
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Sheaves with zero Chern classes on a K3 surface.

Let S be a K3 surface. Is it true that any sheaf on S with zero Chern classes is isomorphic to OnS for some n? If not, do you have any counterexample?
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Picard/cohomology lattice of surfaces of low degree in P3

Let Sd>3P3C be a smooth surface of degree d. What is known (where to read?) about the Picard/cohomology lattice for small d? e.g. for d=4 the cohomology ...
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K3 surfaces can't be uniruled

Let S be a uniruled surface, ie admits a dominant map f:X×P1. Why then it's canonical divisor ωX cannot be trivial? Motivation: I want to understand why K3 surfaces ...
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Automorphisms of finite order on K3 surfaces

Is there a K3 surface (algebraic, complex) that has infinitely many automorphisms of finite order? Many K3 surfaces have infinite automorphism groups. In particular, all K3 surfaces of Picard ...
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Automorphisms of a K3 surface

I was studying the following algebraic surface in P5 defined by the following three quadrics: \begin{cases} x^2 + xy + y^2=w^2\\ x^2 + 3xz + z^2=t^2\\ y^2 + 5yz + z^2=s^2. \...
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Example of a K3 surface with two non-symplectic involutions

Let X be a K3 surface (algebraic, complex). An involution σ:XX is called non-symplectic if it acts as multiplication by 1 on $H^{2,0}(X)=\Bbb{C}\...
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rational curves over K3 surfaces over Q

There are many partial results towards the following conjecture: Every projective K3 surface over an algebraically closed field contains infinitely many integral rational curves. My question is: is ...
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Is there a way to explicitly find any rational Fp-curve on the Kummer surface?

Consider a finite field Fp (where p1 (mod 3), p3 (mod 4)), Fp2-isomorphic elliptic curves (of j-invariant 0) $$ E\!:y_1^2 = ...
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The quotient of a superspecial abelian surface by the involution

Let Ei:y2i=f(xi) be two copies of a supersingular elliptic curve over a field of odd characteristics. Consider the involution $$ i\!: E_1\times E_2 \to E_1\times E_2,\qquad (x_1, y_1, x_2, ...
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Elliptic fibrations on the Fermat quartic surface

Consider the Fermat quartic surface x4+y4+z4+t4=0
over an algebraically closed field k of characteristics p, where p3 (mod 4). Is there the full ...
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Is the Fermat quartic surface a generalized Zariski surface?

Consider the Fermat quartic surface F:x4+y4+z4+t4=0
over an algebraically closed field k of odd characterstics p. Shioda proved that for p=3 this surface is a generalized ...
Dimitri Koshelev's user avatar
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What are sufficient and necessary conditions to be a generalized Zariski surface over a finite field?

Let X be an absolutely irreducible reduced surface over a finite field k of characteristic p. What are sufficient and necessary conditions for X to be a generalized Zariski surface over k (...
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Linear system on an abelian surface

On a K3 surface S, a linear system |C| is said to be hyperelliptic if the corresponding map is of degree 2 and the image is of degree ga(C)1 in Pga. For ga(C)>2, if $|C|...
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Picard numbers of isogenous K3 surfaces over a non-closed field

Let S1,S2 be K3 surfaces defined over a field k and ϕ:S1S2 a dominant rational k-map (so-called isogeny). It is known that ρ(S1)=ρ(S2) for the complex ...
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