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EPW sextics and Hilbert squares of K3 surfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2014-04-01 v2

Abstract

We prove that the Hilbert square S[2]S^{[2]} of a very general primitively polarized K3 surface S of degree d(n)=2(4n2+8n+5)d(n) = 2(4n^2 + 8n + 5), n1n \geq 1 is birational to a double Eisenbud-Popescu-Walter sextic. Our result implies a positive answers, in the case when rr is even, to a conjecture of O'Grady: On the Hilbert square of a very general K3 surface of genus r2+2r^2 + 2, r1r \geq 1 there is an antisymplectic involution. We explicitly give this involution on S[2]S^{[2]} in term of the corresponding EPW polarization on it.

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@article{arxiv.1308.2800,
  title  = {EPW sextics and Hilbert squares of K3 surfaces},
  author = {Atanas Iliev and Carlo Madonna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.2800},
  year   = {2014}
}

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9 pages, typos corrected, introduction rewritten, abstract updated