Moduli of elliptic $K3$ surfaces: monodromy and Shimada root lattice strata

Abstract

In this paper we investigate two stratifications of the moduli space of elliptically fibred K3 surfaces. The first comes from Shimada's classification of connected components of elliptically fibred K3 surfaces and is closely related to the root lattice of the fibration. The second is the monodromy stratification defined by Bogomolov, Petrov and Tschinkel. The main result of the paper is a classification of all positive-dimensional ambi-typical strata, that is strata which are both Shimada root strata and monodromy strata. We further discuss the connection with moduli spaces of lattice-polarised K3 surfaces. The paper contains an appendix by M. Kirschmer providing computational results on the 1-dimensional ambi-typical strata.