Quintic surfaces with maximum and other Picard numbers

From MaRDI portal
(Redirected from Publication:654433)



Abstract: This paper investigates the Picard numbers of quintic surfaces. We give the first example of a complex quintic surface in IP^3 with maximum Picard number 45. We also investigate its arithmetic and determine the zeta function. Similar techniques are applied to produce quintic surfaces with several other Picard numbers that have not been achieved before.


This paper is concerned with exhibiting complex algebraic surfaces of general type having prescribed Picard number. For a complex algebraic surface \(X\), the Picard number satisfies the Lefschetz bound \(\rho(X)\leq h^{1,1}(X)\). The paper focuses on quintic surfaces \(X\) in \({\mathbb{P}}^3\), where the Hodge numbers are given by \(h^{2,0}(X)=4=h^{0,2}(X)\) and \(h^{1,1}(X)=45\). The first question dealt with in this article is to realize quintic surface \(X\) whose Picard number attains the maximum value, namely \(45\). Theorem 1. The surface \(Y\subset{\mathbb{P}}^3\) defined by the equation \[ yzw^3+xyz^3+wxy^3+zwx^3=0 \] has exactly four \(A_9\) singularities at the points where three coordinates vanish simultaneously. It minimal resolution \(X\) has maximum Picard number \(\rho(X)=45\). Three proofs are presented. The first proof exploits the fact that \(X\) is a Galois quotient of some Fermat surface. The second proof exhibit rational curves on \(X\) that generate the Néron-Severi group \(\mathrm{NS}(X)\) up to finite index, and the third proof uses the cyclic group of order \(15\) acting on \(X\) to show that the \({\mathbb{Q}}\)-transcendental cycles form a one-dimensional vector space over the cyclotomic field \({\mathbb{Q}}(\zeta_{15})\). The method of the first proof realizes some given numbers as Picard numbers. Theorem 2. If \(r=1,5,13\) or an odd integer between \(17\) and \(45\), there there exists a quintic surface \(X\) with \(\rho(X)=r\). As a byproduct of the first and the second proofs, the zeta-function of \(X\) can be computed.











This page was built for publication: Quintic surfaces with maximum and other Picard numbers

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q654433)