Relative dihedral group actions on rational elliptic surfaces (Q2846869)

The present paper classifies rational elliptic surfaces with an action by the dihedral group \(D_8\) of order \(8\). Up to birational equivalence, they can be reduced toNEWLINENEWLINE-- either a rational elliptic surface with singular fibers of Kodaira types \(I_4, I_4, I_2, I_1, I_1\) and Mordell-Weil group \(\mathbb{Z} \times \mathbb{Z}/4\mathbb{Z}\)NEWLINENEWLINE-- or \(\mathbb{P}^1\times\mathbb{P}^1\) with two possible \(D_8\)-actions.NEWLINENEWLINEThe first mentioned rational elliptic surfaces occur in a one-dimensional family which is constructed explicitly by blowing up pencils of genus one curves in \(\mathbb{P}^1\times\mathbb{P}^1\). The latter cases arise in particular from the isolated specialisations with finite Mordell-Weil group within the above family.