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By work of Looijenga and others, one has a good understanding of the relationship between GIT and Baily-Borel compactifications for the moduli spaces of degree 2 K3 surfaces, cubic fourfolds, and a few other related examples. The…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Radu Laza , Kieran G. O'Grady

In previous work, we have introduced a program aimed at studying the birational geometry of locally symmetric varieties of Type IV associated to moduli of certain projective varieties of K3 type. In particular, a concrete goal of our…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Radu Laza , Kieran O'Grady

We introduce one of the most beautiful algebraic varieties known, a quintic hypersurface in projective five-space, which is invariant under the action of the Weyl group of $E_6$. This variety is intricately related with many other moduli…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Bruce Hunt

Motivated by the Beauville-Voisin conjecture about Chow rings of powers of $K3$ surfaces, we consider a similar conjecture for Chow rings of powers of EPW sextics. We prove part of this conjecture for the very special EPW sextic studied by…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Robert Laterveer

We show that a Hilbert scheme of conics on a Fano fourfold double cover of $\mathbb{P}^2\times\mathbb{P}^2$ ramified along a divisor of bidegree $(2,2)$ admits a $\mathbb{P}^1$-fibration with base being a hyper-K\"{a}hler fourfold. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Atanas Iliev , Grzegorz Kapustka , Michał Kapustka , Kristian Ranestad

In this paper, we conduct the first systematic investigation of twisted cubics on Gushel-Mukai (GM) fourfolds. We then study the double EPW cube, a 6-dimensional hyperk\"ahler manifold associated with a general GM fourfold $X$, through the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Soheyla Feyzbakhsh , Hanfei Guo , Zhiyu Liu , Shizhuo Zhang

Motivated by DeVleming's work on moduli of surfaces in $\mathbb{P}^3$ and Chen-Hu-Jiang's work on moduli of threefolds with volume $2$ and geometric genus $4$, we study the deformation of pairs of $\mathbb{P}^3$ and hypersurfaces using the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Jungkai Chen , Yongnam Lee , Phin-Sing Soo

Double EPW quartics are hyperk\"ahler varieties of dimension 4, first introduced by Iliev, Kapustka, Kapustka, and Ranestad. The general double EPW quartic is isomorphic to a moduli space of twisted sheaves on a $K3$ surface. They have a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Carl Mazzanti

It is one of the wonderful ``coincidences'' of the theory of finite groups that the simple group G of order 25920 arises as both a symplectic group in characteristic 3 and a unitary group in characteristic 2. These two realizations of G…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Noam D. Elkies

Double planes branched in 6 lines give a famous example of K3 surfaces. Their moduli are well understood and related to abelian fourfolds of Weil type. We compare these two moduli interpretations and in particular divisors on the moduli…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-10 Giuseppe Lombardo , Chris Peters , Matthias Schuett

Polarized K3 surfaces of genus sixteen have a Mukai vector bundle of rank two. We study the geometry of the projectivization of this bundle. We prove that it has an embedding in $\mathbb{P}_9$ with an ideal generated by quadrics. We give an…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Frederic Han

This note is about the Hilbert square $X=S^{[2]}$, where $S$ is a general $K3$ surface of degree $10$, and the anti-symplectic birational involution $\iota$ of $X$ constructed by O'Grady. The main result is that the action of $\iota$ on…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Robert Laterveer

We study the GIT quotient of the symplectic grassmannian parametrizing lagrangian subspaces of \bigwedge^3{\mathbb C}^6 by the natural action of SL_6, call it M. This is a compactification of the moduli space of smooth double EPW-sextics.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Kieran G. O'Grady

We study a period map for triple coverings of $\mathbf P^2$branching along special configurations of $6$ lines. Though the moduli space of special configurations isa two dimensional variety,the minimal models of the coverings form a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-07 Keiji Matsumoto , Tomohide Terasoma

We continue our study on the hypergeometric system $E(3,6)$ which describes period integrals of the double cover family of K3 surfaces. Near certain special boundary points in the moduli space of the K3 surfaces, we construct the local…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Shinobu Hosono , Bong Lian , Shing-Tung Yau

We identify the double dual EPW sextic $\widetilde{Y}_{A^{\perp}}$ and the double EPW sextic $\widetilde{Y}_A$, associated with a very general Gushel-Mukai fourfold $X$, with the Bridgeland moduli spaces of stable objects of character…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Hanfei Guo , Zhiyu Liu , Shizhuo Zhang

Let SU_X(3) be the moduli space of semi-stable vector bundles of rank 3 and trivial determinant on a curve X of genus 2. It maps onto P^8 and the map is a double cover branched over a sextic hypersurface called the Coble sextic. In the dual…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Quang Minh Nguyen

We study moduli spaces of certain sextic curves with a singularity of multiplicity 3 from both perspectives of Deligne-Mostow theory and periods of K3 surfaces. In both ways we can describe the moduli spaces via arithmetic quotients of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Zhiwei Zheng , Yiming Zhong

The hyperbolic dodecahedral space of Weber and Seifert has a natural non-positively curved cubulation obtained by subdividing the dodecahedron into cubes. We show that the hyperbolic dodecahedral space has a 6-sheeted irregular cover with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Jonathan Spreer , Stephan Tillmann

We first prove an isomorphism between the moduli space of smooth cubic threefolds and the moduli space of hyperkaehler fourfolds of K3^{[2]}-type with a non-symplectic automorphism of order three, whose invariant lattice has rank one and is…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Samuel Boissière , Chiara Camere , Alessandra Sarti