Integral points on the complement of plane quartics

Abstract

Let $Y$ be the complement of a plane quartic curve $D$ defined over a number field. Our main theorem confirms the Lang-Vojta conjecture for $Y$ when $D$ is a generic smooth quartic curve, by showing that its integral points are confined in a curve except for a finite number of exceptions. The required finiteness will be obtained by reducing it to the Shafarevich conjecture for K3 surfaces. Some variants of our method confirm the same conjecture when $D$ is a reducible generic quartic curve which consists of four lines, two lines and a conic, or two conics.