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Separation of periods of quartic surfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2023-09-20 v3 Number Theory

Abstract

We give a computable lower bound on the distance between two distinct periods of a given quartic surface defined over the algebraic numbers. The main ingredient is the determination of height bounds on components of the Noether--Lefschetz loci. This makes it possible to study the Diophantine properties of periods of quartic surfaces and to certify a part of the numerical computation of their Picard groups.

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@article{arxiv.2011.12316,
  title  = {Separation of periods of quartic surfaces},
  author = {Pierre Lairez and Emre Can Sertöz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.12316},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

28 pages. Added a final section elaborating on our results. Implemented referee suggestions. Final version