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# On K3 Surface Quotients of K3 or Abelian Surfaces

Published:2016-03-18
Printed: Apr 2017
• Alice Garbagnati,
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Milano, via Saldini 50, I-20133 Milano, Italia
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## Abstract

The aim of this paper is to prove that a K3 surface is the minimal model of the quotient of an Abelian surface by a group $G$ (respectively of a K3 surface by an Abelian group $G$) if and only if a certain lattice is primitively embedded in its Néron-Severi group. This allows one to describe the coarse moduli space of the K3 surfaces which are (rationally) $G$-covered by Abelian or K3 surfaces (in the latter case $G$ is an Abelian group). If either $G$ has order 2 or $G$ is cyclic and acts on an Abelian surface, this result was already known, so we extend it to the other cases. Moreover, we prove that a K3 surface $X_G$ is the minimal model of the quotient of an Abelian surface by a group $G$ if and only if a certain configuration of rational curves is present on $X_G$. Again this result was known only in some special cases, in particular if $G$ has order 2 or 3.
 Keywords: K3 surfaces, Kummer surfaces, Kummer type lattice, quotient surfaces
 MSC Classifications: 14J28 - $K3$ surfaces and Enriques surfaces 14J50 - Automorphisms of surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties 14J10 - Families, moduli, classification: algebraic theory

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