Braid monodromy factorization for a non-prime K3 surface branch curve

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Braid monodromy factorization for a non-prime \(K3\) surface branch curve



Abstract: This paper is the second in a series. The first one describes pillow degenerations of a K3 surface with genus g. In this paper we study the (2,2)-pillow degeneration of a non-prime K3 surface and the braid monodromy of the branch curve of the surface with respect to a generic projection onto CP2. In future papers we study the fundamental group of the complement of the branch curve and the fundamental group of the Galois cover of the surface with respect to this generic projection.


This paper considers \(K3\) surfaces of degree \(16\) in \({\mathbb P}^9\), whose hyperplane section is twice a generator of the Picard group. A degeneration of these surfaces as union of \(16\) planes (called ``pillow degeneration) was constructed by \textit{C. Ciliberto, R. Miranda} and \textit{M. Teicher} [Applications of algebraic geometry to coding theory, physics and computation. Proceedings of the NATO advanced research workshop, Eilat, Israel, February 25-March 1, 2001. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. NATO Sci. Ser. II, Math. Phys. Chem. 36, 53--63 (2001; Zbl 1006.14014)]. This paper is devoted to the study of this degeneration, and of the braid monodromy factorization of the branch curve of a generic projection of one of these surfaces onto a plane. The goal of this analysis is the computation of the fundamental group of the complement of the branch curve and of the corresponding Galois cover of the surface. Although this goal is not acheived in the paper, the authors announce the result for a forthcoming paper with U. Vishne.











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