Transversality of sections on elliptic surfaces with applications to elliptic divisibility sequences and geography of surfaces

DOI10.1007/S00029-021-00747-XMaRDI QIDQ2065449zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Douglas Ulmer, Giancarlo Urzúa

Publication date 7 January 2022

Published in Selecta Mathematica. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02208

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic divisibility sequenceselliptic surfacesgeography of surfacesstable surfacessurfaces of general type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39) Elliptic surfaces, elliptic or Calabi-Yau fibrations (14J27) Surfaces of general type (14J29)

Abstract: We consider elliptic surfaces $mathcalE$ over a field $k$ equipped with zero section $O$ and another section $P$ of infinite order. If $k$ has characteristic zero, we show there are only finitely many points where $O$ is tangent to a multiple of $P$. Equivalently, there is a finite list of integers such that if $n$ is not divisible by any of them, then $nP$ is not tangent to $O$. Such tangencies can be interpreted as unlikely intersections. If $k$ has characteristic zero or $p>3$ and $mathcalE$ is very general, then we show there are no tangencies between $O$ and $nP$. We apply these results to square-freeness of elliptic divisibility sequences and to geography of surfaces. In particular, we construct mildly singular surfaces of arbitrary fixed geometric genus with $K$ ample and $K^2$ unbounded.

Review text

The Bogomolov-Miyaoka-Yau inequality says that for a smooth complex surface of general type \(S\) one has the bound \(K^2\leq 9\chi\), where \(K\) is a canonical divisor of \(S\) and \(\chi\) is the holomorphic Euler characteristic of \(S\). This paper address the question of existence of mildly singular surfaces where such bound does not hold. Consider an elliptic surface over a field of characteristic zero equipped with a zero section \(O\) and a section \(P\) of infinite order (i.e. such that \(O\ne nP\) for all \(n\)). The authors show that there are only finitely many points where \(O\) is tangent to a multiple \(nP\) of \(P\). Then this result is used to prove that, for each non-negative integer \(g\), there exist surfaces with only one singularity, which is log-terminal, with geometric genus \(p_g=g\) (thus \(\chi=1+g\)) and with unbounded \(K^2\).

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