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On a Classical Correspondence between K3 Surfaces
C. G. Madonnaa,
V. V. Nikulinbc a Università degli Studi di Roma — Tor Vergata
b Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
c University of Liverpool
Abstract:
Let
$X$ be a K3 surface that is the intersection (i.e. a net
$\mathbb P^2$) of three quadrics in
$\mathbb P^5$. The curve of degenerate quadrics has degree 6 and defines a natural double covering
$Y$ of
$\mathbb P^2$ ramified in this curve which is again a K3. This is a classical example of a correspondence between K3 surfaces that is related to the moduli of sheaves on K3 studied by Mukai. When are general (for fixed Picard lattices)
$X$ and
$Y$ isomorphic? We give necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of Picard lattices of
$X$ and
$Y$. For example, for the Picard number 2, the Picard lattice of
$X$ and
$Y$ is defined by its determinant
$-d$, where
$d>0$,
$d\equiv 1\mod 8$, and one of the equations
$a^2-db^2=8$ or
$a^2-db^2=-8$ has an integral solution
$(a,b)$. Clearly, the set of these
$d$ is infinite:
$d\in \{(a^2\mp 8)/b^2\}$, where
$a$ and
$b$ are odd integers. This gives all possible divisorial conditions on the 19-dimensional moduli of intersections of three quadrics
$X$ in
$\mathbb P^5$, which imply
$Y\cong X$. One of them, when
$X$ has a line, is classical and corresponds to
$d=17$. Similar considerations can be applied to a realization of an isomorphism $(T(X)\otimes \mathbb Q, H^{2,0}(X)) \cong (T(Y)\otimes \mathbb Q, H^{2,0}(Y))$ of transcendental periods over
$\mathbb Q$ of two K3 surfaces
$X$ and
$Y$ by a fixed sequence of types of Mukai vectors.
UDC:
512.7 Received in November 2002