Moduli of theta-characteristics via Nikulin surfaces

DOI10.1007/S00208-011-0739-ZzbMATH Open1259.14033arXiv1104.0273OpenAlexW2015904329MaRDI QIDQ453410FDOQ453410

Authors: Gavril Farkas, Alessandro Verra 

Publication date: 27 September 2012

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study moduli spaces of K3 surfaces endowed with a Nikulin involution and their image in the moduli space R_g of Prym curves of genus g. We observe a striking analogy with Mukai's well-known work on ordinary K3 surfaces. Many of Mukai's results have a very precise Prym-Nikulin analogue, for instance: (1) A general Prym curve from R_g is a section of a Nikulin surface if and only if gleq 7, g eq 6. (2) R_7 has the structure of a Mori fibre space over the corresponding moduli space of polarized Nikulin surfaces. (3) In the case of genus next to maximal (g=6), the Prym-Nikulin locus in R_6 is an extremal divisor; the corresponding space of Nikulin surfaces has a Grassmannian GIT model. (4) The Prym-Nikulin locus in R_g can be characterized by extra syzygies of Prym-canonical curves. We then use these results to study the geometry of the moduli space S_g of even spin curves, with special emphasis on the transition case of S_8 which is a 21-dimensional Calabi-Yau variety.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0273

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zbMATH Keywords

theta characteristicsPrym varietiesNikulin surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40) (K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28)

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