The Flex Divisor of a K3 Surface

Abstract: The flex divisor of a primitively polarized K3 surface

(X, L)

of degree

L^{2} = 2 d

is, generically, the locus of all points

x i n X

for which there exists a pencil

V s u b s e t | L |

whose base locus is

x

. We show that the flex divisor lies in the linear system

| n_{d} L |

where

n_{d} = (2 d + 1) C (d)^{2}

and

C (d)

is the Catalan number. We also show that there is a well-defined notion of flex divisor over the whole moduli space

F_{2 d}

of polarized K3 surfaces.

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