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Wim Nijgh

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On the Galois-invariant part of the Weyl group of the Picard lattice of a K3 surface

Let $X$ denote a K3 surface over an arbitrary field $k$. Let $k^\text{s}$ denote a separable closure of $k$ and let $X^\text{s}$ denote the base change of $X$ to $k^\text{s}$. The action of the absolute Galois group Gal($k^\text{s}/k$) of $k$ on Pic $X^\text{s}$ respects the intersection pairing, which gives Pic $X^\text{s}$ the structure of a lattice. Let O(Pic $X$) and O(Pic $X^\text{s}$) denote the group of isometries of Pic $X$ and Pic $X^\text{s}$, respectively. Let $R_X$ denote the Galois invariant part of the Weyl group of O(Pic $X^\text{s}$). One can show that each element in $R_X$ can be restricted to an element of O(Pic $X$). The following question arises: Is the image of the restriction map $R_X \to $O(Pic $X$) a normal subgroup of O(Pic $X$) for every K3 surface $X$? We show that the answer is negative by giving counterexamples over $k=\mathbb{Q}$.

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K3 surfaces with two involutions and low Picard number

Let $X$ be a complex algebraic K3 surface of degree $2d$ and with Picard number $\rho$. Assume that $X$ admits two commuting involutions: one holomorphic and one anti-holomorphic. In that case, $\rho \geq 1$ when $d=1$ and $\rho \geq 2$ when $d \geq 2$. For $d=1$, the first example defined over $\mathbb{Q}$ with $\rho=1$ was produced already in 2008 by Elsenhans and Jahnel. A K3 surface provided by Kond\={o}, also defined over $\mathbb{Q}$, can be used to realise the minimum $\rho=2$ for all $d\geq 2$. In these notes we construct new explicit examples of K3 surfaces over the rational numbers realising the minimum $\rho=2$ for $d=2,3,4$. We also show that a nodal quartic surface can be used to realise the minimum $\rho=2$ for infinitely many different values of $d$. Finally, we strengthen a result of Morrison by showing that for any even lattice $N$ of rank $1\leq r \leq 10$ and signature $(1,r-1)$ there exists a K3 surface $Y$ defined over $\mathbb{R}$ such that $\textrm{Pic} Y_\mathbb{C}=\textrm{Pic} Y \cong N$.

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