Lines on smooth polarized \(K3\)-surfaces (Q2324629)

This paper is concerned with the classical problem of counting the number of lines in a projective surface. For each integer \(D\geq 3\), let \(X\subset\mathbb{P}^{D+1}\) be a smooth \(2D\)-polarized complex \(K3\) surface. This paper obtains a harp bounded on the number of lines contained in \(X\). For instance, for sextics in \(\mathbb{P}^4\) and octics in \(\mathbb{P}^5\), the bounds are \(42\) and \(36\), respectively. Given a field \(K\subset\mathbb{C}\) and an integer \(D\geq 2\), let \(M_K(D)\) denote the maximal number of possible lines defined over \(K\) in a smooth \(2D\)-polarized surface \(X\subset\mathbb{P}^{D+1}\) defined over \(K\). The main results are collected in Table 1 of the article, where \(D\) ranges from \(2\) to \(14\). This is done studying the Fano graph \(Fn X\) (the dual incidence graph of lines), and the Fano configurations generated by \(\mathbb{Q}\) by the polarization \(h\) with \(h^2=2D\) and all lines \(\ell\in Fn X\).