Even sets of nodes on sextic surfaces

DOI10.4171/JEMS/94zbMATH Open1143.14030arXivmath/0510499OpenAlexW2005858773MaRDI QIDQ2478596FDOQ2478596

Fabio Tonoli, Fabrizio Catanese

Publication date: 28 March 2008

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We determine the possible even sets of nodes on sextic surfaces in $Pn3$, showing in particular that their cardinalities are exactly the numbers in the set $24,32,40,56$. We also show that all the possible cases admit an explicit description. The methods that we use are an interplay of coding theory and projective geometry on one hand, of homological and computer algebra on the other. We give a detailed geometric construction for the new case of an even set of 56 nodes, but the ultimate verification of existence relies on computer calculations. The construction gives a maximal family, unirational and of dimension 27, of nodal sextics with an even set of 56 nodes. According to a general theorem of Casnati and Catanese each such nodal surface $F$ is given as the determinant of a symmetric map for an appropriate vector bundle $E$ depending on $F$. The first difficulty here is to show the existence of such vector bundles. This leads us to the investigation of a hitherto unknown moduli space of rank 6 vector bundles which we show to be birational to a moduli space of plane representations of cubic surfaces in $P{P}^3$. The resulting picture shows a very rich and interesting geometry. The main difficulty is to show the existence of "good" maps $phi$, and the interesting phenomenon which shows up is the following: the "moduli space" of such pairs $(E,phi)$ is reducible, indeed for a general choice of $E$ the determinant of $phi$ is the double of a cubic surface $G$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510499

zbMATH Keywords

coding theoryeven sets of nodesnodes on surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities of surfaces or higher-dimensional varieties (14J17) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10)

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Cited In (5)

• Genus three curves and 56 nodal sextic surfaces
• Non-rational sextic double solids
• TRIPLE COVERS OF K3 SURFACES
• Double covers of smooth quadric threefolds with Artin-Mumford obstructions to rationality
• Even sets of four nodes on rational surfaces

Uses Software

• Macaulay2

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