Elliptic fibrations on toric $K3$ hypersurfaces and mirror symmetry derived from Fano polytopes

Abstract

We determine the N\'eron-Severi lattices of $K3$ hypersurfaces with large Picard number in toric three-folds derived from Fano polytopes. On each $K3$ surface, we introduce a particular elliptic fibration. In the proof of the main theorem, we show that the N\'eron-Severi lattice of each $K3$ surface is generated by a general fibre, sections and appropriately selected components of the singular fibres of our elliptic fibration. Our argument gives a certain proof of the Dolgachev conjecture for Fano polytopes, which is a conjecture on mirror symmetry for $K3$ surfaces.