Symmetries and equations of smooth quartic surfaces with many lines (Q2177518)

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Symmetries and equations of smooth quartic surfaces with many lines
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    Symmetries and equations of smooth quartic surfaces with many lines (English)
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    6 May 2020
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    From results by \textit{S. Rams} and \textit{M. Schütt} [Math. Ann. 362, No. 1--2, 679--698 (2015; Zbl 1319.14042)], \textit{A. Degtyarev} et al. [Math. Ann. 368, No. 1--2, 753--809 (2017; Zbl 1368.14052)] it is known that every smooth complex quartic surface in $\mathbb{P}^3$ contains at most $64$ lines, and there exists an exhaustive (up to projective equivalence) list of $10$ quartic surfaces with more than $52$ lines. They also find explicit equations for some of them. This article provides explicit equations for the remaining quartics, and for other quartics with more than $50$ lines. The strategy involves studying the group of linear automorphisms of such surfaces, i.e. automorphisms that are restrictions of automorphisms of $\mathbb{P}^3$, and relating it to the presence of special configurations of lines. Moreover the author answers a question raised by \textit{K. Oguiso} [Taiwanese J. Math. 21, No. 3, 671--688 (2017; Zbl 1391.14076)], by finding explicit equations for the graph of a specific isomorphism between the Fermat quartic and $X_{56}$, a quartic with $56$ lines belonging to the list above.
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    quartic surface
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    line
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    equation
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    \(K3\) surface
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    automorphism
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