Singularities of normal quartic surfaces. II: (\(\mathrm{char}= 2\)) (Q2093656)

This is the second part of the project that is devoted to singularities of \(K3\) surfaces in positive characteristic. The main result of the paper under review is that a normal quartic surface \(X \subset \mathbb{P}^{3}_{\mathbb{K}}\) defined over an arbitrary algebraically closed field \(\mathbb{K}\) of characteristic \(2\) contains no more than \(14\) singular points. If the maximum number of \(14\) singularities is attained, then all singularities are nodes and the minimal resolution is a supersingular \(K3\) surface. The variety of quadrics with \(14\) nodes contains an irreducible component of dimension \(24\). The authors announced the third part of the project where they proved that if \(S\) is a \(K3\) surface which is not a supersingular one, then \(X\) has at most \(12\) singularities.