Period map of Triple coverings of P^2 and mixed Hodge structures

DOI10.4171/PRIMS/55-3-2MaRDI QIDQ2329639zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Keiji Matsumoto, Tomohide Terasoma

Publication date 18 October 2019

Published in Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.01675

zbMATH Keywords

mixed Hodge structureperiod map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theta functions and curves; Schottky problem (14H42) Period matrices, variation of Hodge structure; degenerations (32G20) Appell, Horn and Lauricella functions (33C65)

Abstract: We study a period map for triple coverings of $mathbf{P}^2$branching along special configurations of $6$ lines. Though the moduli space of special configurations isa two dimensional variety,the minimal models of the coverings form a oneparameter family of K3 surfaces.We extract extra one dimensionalinformation from the mixed Hodge structure on the second relative homology group.

Review text

Consider the moduli space $\mathcal{M}$ of \textit{special configurations} of six projective lines $\{ l_i\}_{i=1}^6$ in the sense that the intersections of three lines $l_1, l_3, l_6$ and $l_2, l_4, l_6$ are one point. By an appropriate choice of the coordinate system, the space is regarded as the set of pairs $(x_1, x_2)\in\mathbb{C}^2$ such that $x_1,\, x_2\not=0,1$ and $x_1+x_2\not=1$. The normalisation of the triple covering of the projective plane branching along a special configuration admits a rational map $\lambda$ from the direct product of two curves $E$ and $C$ that are triple coverings of the projective line. The goal of the paper under review is to describe the moduli space $\mathcal{M}$ by giving the image and the inverse of the period mapping for $\mathcal{M}$ in terms of a theta function with characteristics $(-2,-1,1,2)/3$. For this purpose, the study concerning the homology groups of the curve $C$ can give an explicit description of the period matrix and the period integrals for points in the space $\mathcal{M}$. Section 5 is devoted to the study of points $(x_1, x_2)\in\mathcal{M}$ satisfying the extra properties $0<x_1$, $x_2$, $x_1+x_2<1$. The general case is treated in Section 6, after a construction of the moduli space $\mathcal{M}_{\mathrm{mk}}$ of marked special configurations, it allows to compute the period matrix by using the mixed Hodge structure of a subspace $H_2(X, E_2)_\rho$ and thus a period mapping for $\mathcal{M}_{\mathrm{mk}}$, and to study an appropriate group action so that the authors finally obtain the period mapping for $\mathcal{M}$.

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