Publications at the Riemann Center

Singularities of normal quartic surfaces II (char=2)

Authored by

Fabrizio Catanese, Matthias Schütt

Abstract

We show, in this second part, that the maximal number of singular points of a quartic surface \(X \subset \mathbb{P}^3_K\) defined over an algebraically closed field \(K\) of characteristic \(2\) is at most \(14\), and that, if we have \(14\) singularities, these are nodes and moreover the minimal resolution of \(X\) is a supersingular K3 surface. We produce an irreducible component, of dimension \(24\), of the variety of quartics with \(14\) nodes. We also exhibit easy examples of quartics with \(7\) \(A_3\)-singularities.

Details

Organisation(s)
Institute of Algebraic Geometry
Riemann Center for Geometry and Physics
External Organisation(s)
University of Bayreuth
Type
Article
Journal
Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly
Volume
18
Pages
1379-1420
No. of pages
42
ISSN
1558-8599
Publication date
25.10.2022
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
General Mathematics
Electronic version(s)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03078 (Access: Open )
https://doi.org/10.4310/PAMQ.2022.v18.n4.a5 (Access: Closed )