Lines on K3 quartic surfaces in characteristic 3
Abstract
We investigate the number of straight lines contained in a K3 quartic surface \(X\) defined over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 3. We prove that if \(X\) contains 112 lines, then \(X\) is projectively equivalent to the Fermat quartic surface; otherwise, \(X\) contains at most 67 lines. We improve this bound to 58 if \(X\) contains a star (ie four distinct lines intersecting at a smooth point of \(X\)). 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.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- August 2016
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1608.04209
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1608.04209
- Bibcode:
- 2016arXiv160804209C
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Algebraic Geometry;
- 14J28;
- 14N10;
- 14N25
- E-Print:
- One example removed. Some examples and some proofs now with more details