Questions tagged [k3-surfaces]
Questions about K3 surfaces, which are smooth complex surfaces $X$ with trivial canonical bundle and vanishing $H^1(O_X)$. They are examples of Calabi-Yau varieties of dimension $2$.
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Find an explicit quasi-smooth embedding $X_{38} \subset \mathbb P(5, 6, 8, 19)$
This question is not quite about research-level mathematics, so I apologize for bringing it here. I asked it in Math.SE first, but I got no answers, and only a suggestion to ask it here.
Consider the ...
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Produce supersingular K3 from rational elliptic surfaces
Given a rational elliptic surface $R \to \Bbb P^1$, is there a way to know if there exists a supersingular K3 surface that arises as a base curve change $S=R\times_{\Bbb P^1} \Bbb P^1 \to \Bbb P^1$, ...
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Are all these K3 surfaces supersingular?
Consider all the smooth K3 surfaces given by $X^4+W^2X^2+XW^3 = f(Y,Z,W)$ or $X^4+XW^3 = g(Y,Z,W)$ over $\mathbb F_{2}$ with $f$ or $g$ homogenous of degree 4. There are a lot of choices for $f$ and $...
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Semistable minimal model of a $K3$-surface and the special fibre
Suppose that $K$ is a $p$-adic field, that is a field of characteristic $0$ whose ring of integers is a complete discrete valuation ring $\mathcal O_K$ and with residue field $k$ (algebraic closed) of ...
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Non minimal K3 surfaces as hypersurfaces of weighted projective spaces
I recently learnt that the hypersurface
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S:=(x^2+y^3+z^{11}+w^{66}=0) \subset \mathbb{P}(33,22,6,1)
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is birational to a K3 surface. This is surprising because the surface is quasi-smooth, well-...
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Possible automorphism groups of a K3 surface
Which finite groups are automorphism groups of polarized K3 surfaces (let's say over ℂ)?
...and does the answer change is I remove "polarized"?
(polarized = equipped with an ample line bundle)
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K3 surface of genus 8
Let $V$ be a complex vector space of dimension 6 and let $G\subset {\mathbb P}^{14}\simeq {\mathbb P}(\Lambda^2V)$ be the image of the Plucker embedding of the Grassmannian $Gr(2, V)$.
Why the degree ...
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Are any two K3 surfaces over C diffeomorphic?
Let $S$ be a K3 surface over $\mathbb{C}$, that is, $S$ is a simply connected compact smooth complex surface whose canonical bundle is trivial. I recall reading somewhere that any two such surfaces ...
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density of singular K3 surfaces
By singular K3 I mean a smooth complex K3 with Néron-Severi rank equal to 20.
Are singular K3 surfaces dense in the moduli space of polarized K3 surfaces?
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Action of automorphisms of a $K3$ surface on its $(-2)$-curves
Consider a complex $K3$ surface $X$ and take its group of automorphisms $Aut(X)$. It is a known fact that the action of $Aut(X)$ on the set of rational $-2$ curves of $X$ has only finite number of ...
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Singular models of K3 surfaces
Let us work over a ground field of characteristic zero. As is well-known, a K3 surface is a smooth projective geometrically integral surface $X$ whose canonical class $\omega_X$ is trivial and for ...
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Reference request: Generic k3 surface has Picard number 1
I keep running into the statement that "the generic k3 surface has Picard rank 1".
For instance the answer of this question (end) and this paper (following Example 1.1) or this paper (proof ...
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Are singular rational curves on K3 surfaces rigid?
Let $S$ be a K3 surface over the complex numbers $\mathbb{C}$. If $C\subset S$ is a smooth rational curve, the normal bundle $N_{C/S}$ is isomorphic to $\mathbb{O}(-2)$ and thus $C$ is rigid. What ...
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Is the automorphism group of a Calabi-Yau variety an arithmetic group
Let $X$ be a smooth projective variety over the complex numbers with trivial canonical bundle. Suppose that $X$ is Calabi-Yau.
Is the automorphism group of $X$ an arithmetic group?
What if $X$ is a ...
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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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Spherical objects on Kummer surfaces
Spherical objects $E$ in the derived category of coherent sheaves over a K3 surface satisfy:
$\operatorname{Hom}(E,E)=\mathbb{C}$,
$\operatorname{Ext}^2(E,E)=\mathbb{C}$,
$\operatorname{Ext}^i(E,E)=0$...
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Training towards research on k3 surfaces
I am a graduate student learning basic algebraic geometry (from Hartshorne, Shafarevich). I'm planning to work in k3 surfaces (arithmetic and geometric properties, in my guide's words). I came to know ...
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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 $D_{14}$ singular fiber
Let $X$ be an elliptic K3 surface with $D_{14}$ 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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Existence of logarithmic structures and d-semistability
I am reading a paper ( Kawamata, Y.; Namikawa, Y. Logarithmic deformations of normal crossing varieties and smoothing of degenerate Calabi-Yau varieties. Invent. math. 1994, 118, 395–409.) I have a ...
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Does $h^1(D)=0$ 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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Singular K3 -- mathematical meaning?
There's a very interesting text by Cumrun Vafa called Geometric Physics.
Here I'm particularly interested in Chapter 4, where we take a Calabi-Yau manifold presented as a degenerating fibration:
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Positivity question on K3 surfaces
Let $X$ be a smooth projective complex K3 surface and $L, D$ two effective divisors, $L^2\geq0$ and $D^2\geq0$.
(Q1). do we have $L\cdot D\geq0$ ?
If either one has positive self-intersection, the ...
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Rookie questions about k3's
Hi everyone,
I am trying to go through parts of Saint-Donat's 1974 paper 'Projective Models of K3-surfaces', and have been stuck on a few claims for a while now - I'd appreciate some help explaining ...
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On the cohomology ring of the Hilbert scheme of points on k3 or abelian surfaces
There are many results on the cohomology of the Hilbert scheme of points of a surface.
Gottsche calcaluted the Betti numbers and Nakajima got the generators of the cohomology. Also
there are results ...
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Isotopy classes of $CP^1$ in 4-manifolds
Let $S_1$, $S_2$ be homologous embedded 2-spheres
in a compact smooth 4-manifold. Under which additional
conditions are they smoothly isotopic? I am interested
in the state of the art picture when $...
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Explicit Enriques involutions on the Fermat quartic surface
Let $X$ be the complex Fermat quartic surface defined by the polynomial $x^4+y^4+z^4+w^4$.
By results of Sertöz, we know that the surface $X$ admits at least one Enriques involution, i.e. an ...
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Vanishing cycles for elliptic fibration on K3 surface?
Let $X$ be an elliptic K3 surface (over $\mathbb{C}$). Assume we have an elliptic fibration on $X$ that only has $I_1$ singular fibers.
If we fix a smooth fiber $F$ of such a fibration and a ...
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Is a Kummer surface over an finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ supersingular iff $\mathbb{F}_q$-unirational?
Let $A$ be an abelian surface over an finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$. In particular, I am interested in the case when $A$ is a Jacobian variety. Is the Kummer surface $K_A/\mathbb{F}_q$ Shioda-...
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on the automorphisms of the transcendental Hodge structure of a K3 surface
Let $S$ be a complex projective K3 surface and consider the sub-Hodge structure
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T(S) \subset H^2(S, \mathbb{Q})
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Is the set of points on an abelian surface which project to rational points on the Kummer surface a subgroup?
Let $C$ be a hyperelliptic curve of genus 2 defined over $\mathbb{Q}$, let $J$ be its Jacobian, and let $X$ be the Kummer surface associated to $J$ (i. e. $X$ is the singular Kummer surface which ...
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Period integrals of the fiber of elliptically fibered K3 manifolds
Suppose I have a smooth elliptically fibered K3 manifold
over $\mathbb{P}^1$ defined by the Weierstrass equation,
\begin{equation}
y^2=x^3+f(z)x+g(z)
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(3,3) abelian surface and k3 surfaces
SOrry for the very specific question, but curiosity bites....
So here's the story: an idecomposable principally polarized abelian surface is embedded in $P^8=|3\Theta |^* $ as a deg 18 surface A. ...
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Involution of the Fermat quartic
Let $X\subset\mathbb{P}^{3}$ be the Fermat quartic surface given by
$$x^4-y^4-z^4+w^4 = 0$$
and consider the involution
$$i:X\rightarrow X,\: (x,y,z,w)\mapsto (y,x,w,z).$$
The surface $X$ can be seen ...
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Euler number for base change of a K3 surface
Suppose you have a K3 surface $S$ containing a smooth rational curve $C$ and suppose you have an elliptic fibration $S \rightarrow \mathbb P^1$ that restricts to a morphism $C \rightarrow \mathbb P^1$ ...
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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 $E(1) = \mathbb{CP}^2 9 \bar{{\mathbb{{CP}^2}}}$ along the smooth divisor $2F_{E(1)} = 6H - ...
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Kummer surfaces which are not projective
This is a question from an online note. Let $A$ be a two-dimensional $\mathbb C$-torus. And there is an involution on $A$: $A\to A, x\mapsto -x$. The action has 16 fixed points. Let $Y:=A/\{\pm1\}$, ...
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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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Algebraic cycles on a K3 surface after hyperKahler rotation.
I would like to find a gap in the following observation. I found a suspicious part but cannot prove it wrong. I would appreciate your assistance.
Let $M$ be a lattice of signature $(1,t)$ and $S$ be ...
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Is there a way to calculate the Picard $\mathbb{F}_q$-number of an (rational or K3) elliptic surface?
Consider a finite field $\mathbb{F}_{q}$ and an elliptic surface
$$
\mathcal{E}\!: y^2 + a_1(t)xy + a_3(t)y = x^3 + a_2(t)x^2 + a_4(t)x + a_6,
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where $a_i(t) \in \mathbb{F}_{q}[t]$. Is there a way ...
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What is the Artin invariant of an elliptic supersingular K3 surface?
Let $X$ be a supersingular K3 surface over an algebraically closed field $k$ of positive characteristic $\!p$. Artin proved in the paper https://eudml.org/doc/81948 that the determinant $\mathrm{disc}(...
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Integral cohomology of the hilbert scheme of points on a k3
i'm reading the famous article "Varietes kahleriennes dont la premiere classe de chern est nulle" by Beauville, in particular proposition 6, which characterizes the second cohomology group for the ...
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Singular fibers of an elliptic fibered K3 surface.
Let $f:S\rightarrow \mathbb{P}^1$ be an elliptic K3 surface. Assume that $\mathrm{Pic}(S)\cong U$, where $U$ stands for the hyperbolic lattice. I think that the elliptic fibration has only singular ...
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Is every algebraic $K3$ surface a quartic surface?
Algebraic $K3$ surface means the $K3$ surface admits an ample line bundle. So the question is equivalent to asking whether every algebraic $K3$ surface can be embedded in $\mathbb{P}^3$.
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Line bundles on K3 surfaces
Let $L$ be a line bundle on an (algebraic) K3 surface over a field $k$. The Riemann-Roch theorem specializes to
$$
\chi(X, L)=\frac{1}{2}(L\cdot L)+2
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which can be rewritten as
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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 $\mathbb{P}^2$ 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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(1/2) K3 surface or half-K3 surface: Ways to think about it?
I heard from string theorists thinking of the so-called "(1/2) K3 surface" or "half-K3 surface" as follows:
Let $T^2 \times S^1$ be a 3-torus with spin structure periodic in all directions. $T^2 \...
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Spectral sequence associated to elliptic fibration degenerates?
Let $\phi:S\rightarrow \mathbb{CP}^1$ be an elliptic fibration of a K3 surface. When is the Leray spectral sequence associated to the fibration $E_2$-degenerate? Are there any good criteria for the $...
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