A simple formula for the Picard number of \(K3\) surfaces of BHK type

DOI10.1215/21562261-2019-0051zbMath1460.14081arXiv1706.06707OpenAlexW3036695253MaRDI QIDQ2216689

Bora Olcken, Christopher Lyons

Publication date: 16 December 2020

Published in: Kyoto Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The BHK mirror symmetry construction stems from work Berglund and Huebsch, and applies to certain types of Calabi-Yau varieties that are birational to finite quotients of Fermat varieties. Their definition involves a matrix $A$ and a certain finite abelian group $G$, and we denote the corresponding Calabi-Yau variety by $Z_{A,G}$. The transpose matrix $A^T$ and the so-called dual group $G^T$ give rise to the BHK mirror variety $Z_{A^T,G^T}$. In the case of dimension 2, the surface $Z_{A,G}$ is a K3 surface of BHK type. Let $Z_{A,G}$ be a K3 surface of BHK type, with BHK mirror $Z_{A^T,G^T}$. Using work of Shioda, Kelly shows that the geometric Picard number of $Z_{A,G}$ may be expressed in terms of a certain subset of the dual group $G^T$. We simplify this formula significantly to show that this Picard number depends only upon the degree of the mirror polynomial $F_{A^T}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.06707

zbMATH Keywords

mirror symmetry\(K3\) surfacesPicard numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Picard groups (14C22) Mirror symmetry (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J33)

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