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Extremal divisors on moduli spaces of K3 surfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2025-12-09 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

We establish criteria for when Noether--Lefschetz divisors generate an extremal ray in the cone of pseudoeffective divisors of an orthogonal modular variety. In particular, we exhibit many extremal rays of the cone of pseudoeffective divisors on any moduli space~F2d\mathcal{F}_{2d} of quasi-polarized K3 surfaces of degree dd, as well as on any normal projective Q\mathbb{Q}-factorial compactification F2d\overline{\mathcal{F}}_{2d} of F2d\mathcal{F}_{2d} lying over the Baily--Borel compactification.

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@article{arxiv.2504.16730,
  title  = {Extremal divisors on moduli spaces of K3 surfaces},
  author = {Ignacio Barros and Laure Flapan and Riccardo Zuffetti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.16730},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v2: Main result strengthened. Now the criterion applies to orthogonal modular varieties without assuming hyperbolic splitting