Smoothing cones over K3 surfaces

We prove that the affine cone over a general primitively polarised K3 surface of genus g is smoothable if and only if g ≤ 10 or g = 12. We also give several examples of singularities with special behaviour, such as surfaces whose affine cone is smoothable even though the projective cone is not.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stephen Coughlan, Taro Sano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Epiga 2018-12-01
Series:Épijournal de Géométrie Algébrique
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Online Access:https://epiga.episciences.org/4055/pdf
Description
Summary:We prove that the affine cone over a general primitively polarised K3 surface of genus g is smoothable if and only if g ≤ 10 or g = 12. We also give several examples of singularities with special behaviour, such as surfaces whose affine cone is smoothable even though the projective cone is not.
ISSN:2491-6765