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A $(24_4,32_3)$-configuration on the Schur quartic with logarithmic Chern slope $14/5$

Algebraic Geometry 2026-07-08 v1

Abstract

Let XP3X\subset\mathbb{P}^3 be the Schur quartic x04x0x13x24+x2x33=0. x_0^4-x_0x_1^3-x_2^4+x_2x_3^3=0. We exhibit a connected arrangement of 2424 lines on XX, defined over Q(3)\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-3}), whose singular locus consists of 3232 ordinary triple points and no other intersections. Each line contains four triple points. The resulting reduced divisor DD satisfies D6HD\sim6H, where HH is the hyperplane class. If π:YX\pi:Y\to X blows up the triple points and B=(π1D)redB=(\pi^{-1}D)_{\mathrm{red}}, then c12(Y,B)=112,c2(Y,B)=40,c12(Y,B)c2(Y,B)=145. \overline{c}_{1}^{2}(Y,B)=112,\qquad \overline{c}_{2}(Y,B)=40, \qquad \frac{\overline{c}_{1}^{2}(Y,B)}{\overline{c}_{2}(Y,B)}=\frac{14}{5}. This gives a negative answer to the K3-surface specialization of the proposed 8/38/3 bound for transversal arrangements of rational curves. The configuration is one half of the 4848 lines of the second kind on XX; an explicit projective automorphism exchanges the two halves. We deliver the line parametrizations and all 3232 triple-point coordinates. Ancillary exact-arithmetic data record the 120120 line-containment coefficients and all 276276 pair-incidence determinants. A finite-field mixed-integer search is described only as the discovery procedure and is not used in the proof.

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@article{arxiv.2607.07898,
  title  = {A $(24_4,32_3)$-configuration on the Schur quartic with logarithmic Chern slope $14/5$},
  author = {Bartosz Naskręcki and Piotr Pokora},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.07898},
  year   = {2026}
}

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17 pages, 1 figure