On the geometry of singular \(K3\) surfaces with discriminant 3, 4 and 7 (Q2134239)

The present article studies the three singular \(K3\) surfaces \(X_3\), \(X_4\) and \(X_7\), of discriminant \(3\), \(4\) and \(7\) respectively. These \(K3\) surfaces were explicitly constructed by \textit{T. Shioda} and \textit{H. Inose} [in: Complex Anal. algebr. Geom., Collect. Pap. dedic. K. Kodaira, 119--136 (1977; Zbl 0374.14006)]. The author shows that the \(K3\) surfaces \(X_3\), \(X_4\) and \(X_7\) admit a realization as a double cover of \(\mathbb{P}^2\) branched over a sextic curve with prescribed singularities. As a consequence, the three surfaces can be viewed as points in a \(3\)-dimensional moduli space of \(K3\) surfaces, namely the moduli space of \(U\oplus A_5^3\)-polarized \(K3\) surfaces.