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Involutions and linear systems on holomorphic symplectic manifolds

Algebraic Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

A K3K3 surface with an ample divisor of self-intersection 2 is a double cover of the plane branched over a sextic curve. We conjecture that a similar statement holds for the generic couple (X,H)(X,H) with XX a deformation of (K3)[n](K3)^{[n]} and HH an ample divisor of square 2 for Beauville's quadratic form. If n=2n=2 then according to the conjecture XX is a double cover of a (singular) sextic 4-fold in \PP5\PP^5. It follows from the conjecture that a deformation of (K3)[n](K3)^{[n]} carrying a divisor (not necessarily ample) of degree 2 has an anti-symplectic birational involution. We test the conjecture. In doing so we bump into some interesting geometry: examples of two anti-symplectic involutions generating an interesting dynamical system, a case of Strange duality and what is probably an involution on the moduli space of degree-2 quasi-polarized (X,H)(X,H) where XX is a deformation of (K3)[2](K3)^{[2]}.

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@article{arxiv.math/0403519,
  title  = {Involutions and linear systems on holomorphic symplectic manifolds},
  author = {Kieran G. O'Grady},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0403519},
  year   = {2007}
}

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42 pages

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