Rational points on K3 surfaces of degree 2
Number Theory
2025-10-16 v2 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
A K3 surface over a number field has infinitely many rational points over a finite field extension. For K3 surfaces of degree 2, arising as double covers of branched along a smooth sextic curve, we give a bound for the degree of such an extension. Moreover, using ideas of van Luijk and a surface constructed by Elsenhans and Jahnel, we give an explicit family of K3 surfaces of degree 2 defined over with geometric Picard number 1 and infinitely many -rational points that is Zariski dense in the moduli space of K3 surfaces of degree 2.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.13262,
title = {Rational points on K3 surfaces of degree 2},
author = {Júlia Martínez-Marín},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.13262},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
10 pages; final version to appear in Acta Arithmetica