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On the arithmetic of a family of degree - two K3 surfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2018

FLORIAN BOUYER ,
EDGAR COSTA ,
DINO FESTI ,
CHRISTOPHER NICHOLLS  and
MCKENZIE WEST
FLORIAN BOUYER
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, Howard House, Queen's Avenue, BS81SD, University of Bristol. e-mail: f.j.s.c.bouyer@gmail.com
EDGAR COSTA
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, 27 N. Main Street, 6188 Kemeny Hall, Hanover, NH 03755-3551, U.S.A. e-mail: edgarcosta@math.dartmouth.edu
DINO FESTI
Affiliation:
Institut für Mathematik, Johannes Gutenberg–Universität Mainz, Staudingerweg 9, 55128 Mainz, Germany. e-mail: dinofesti@gmail.com
CHRISTOPHER NICHOLLS
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG. e-mail: christopher.nicholls@balliol.ox.ac.uk
MCKENZIE WEST
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo MI 49006, U.S.A.Kalamazoo College e-mail: mckenzie.west@kzoo.edu
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Abstract

Let ℙ denote the weighted projective space with weights (1, 1, 1, 3) over the rationals, with coordinates x, y, z and w; let $\mathcal{X}$ be the generic element of the family of surfaces in ℙ given by

\begin{equation*}X\colon w^2=x^6+y^6+z^6+tx^2y^2z^2.\end{equation*}
The surface $\mathcal{X}$ is a K3 surface over the function field ℚ(t). In this paper, we explicitly compute the geometric Picard lattice of $\mathcal{X}$, together with its Galois module structure, as well as derive more results on the arithmetic of $\mathcal{X}$ and other elements of the family X.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 166 , Issue 3 , May 2019 , pp. 523 - 542
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2018 

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