Enriques surfaces and Jacobian elliptic \(K3\) surfaces (Q636784)

Enriques surfaces are important algebraic surfaces. They arise as quotients of \(K3\) surfaces by a fixed point free involution. They have been studied both by algebro-geometric methods, as well as lattice theoretic approaches. The paper under review proposes a new geometric construction of Enriques surfaces starting from \(K3\) surfaces with a Jacobian elliptic fibration. These \(K3\) surfaces arise from rational elliptic surfaces by a quadratic base change and admit an Enriques involution. The Enriques surfaces obtained in this way are characterized by elliptic fibrations with a rational curve as bisection which splits into two sections on the covering \(K3\) surface. There are several applications of this construction, one of them being Enriques surfaces with specific automorphisms. Furthermore, the authors construct Enriques surfaces whose Brauer groups pull back identically to zero on the covering \(K3\) surfaces, answering a question raised by \textit{A. Beauville} [Math. Res. Lett. 16, No. 5-6, 927--934 (2009Zbl 1195.14053)].