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Two polarized K3 surfaces associated to the same cubic fourfold

Algebraic Geometry 2018-12-05 v3

Abstract

For infinitely many dd, Hassett showed that special cubic fourfolds of discriminant dd are related to polarized K3 surfaces of degree dd via their Hodge structures. For half of the dd, each associated K3 surface (S,L)(S,L) canonically yields another one, (Sτ,Lτ)(S^{\tau},L^{\tau}). We prove that SτS^{\tau} is isomorphic to the moduli space of stable coherent sheaves on SS with Mukai vector (3,L,d/6)(3,L,d/6). We also explain for which dd the Hilbert schemes Hilbn(S)\text{Hilb}^n(S) and Hilbn(Sτ)\text{Hilb}^n(S^{\tau}) are birational.

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@article{arxiv.1808.01179,
  title  = {Two polarized K3 surfaces associated to the same cubic fourfold},
  author = {Emma Brakkee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.01179},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

More precise statement of Theorem 2, better definition of associated K3 surfaces (def. 2.4), proper proof of Cor. 4.4 using the new Lemma 4.3

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