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Lines on K3 quartic surfaces in characteristic 3

Algebraic Geometry 2024-04-09 v4

Abstract

We investigate the number of straight lines contained in a K3 quartic surface XX defined over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 3. We prove that if XX contains 112 lines, then XX is projectively equivalent to the Fermat quartic surface; otherwise, XX contains at most 67 lines. We improve this bound to 58 if XX contains a star (ie four distinct lines intersecting at a smooth point of XX). Explicit equations of three 1-dimensional families of smooth quartic surfaces with 58 lines, and of a quartic surface with 8 singular points and 48 lines are provided.

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@article{arxiv.1608.04209,
  title  = {Lines on K3 quartic surfaces in characteristic 3},
  author = {Davide Cesare Veniani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.04209},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

One example removed. Some examples and some proofs now with more details

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