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Nikulin involutions on K3 surfaces

Bert van Geemen, Alessandra Sarti

math.AGarXiv:math/0602015

Abstract

We study the maps induced on cohomology by a Nikulin (i.e. a symplectic) involution on a K3 surface. We parametrize the eleven dimensional irreducible components of the moduli space of algebraic K3 surfaces with a Nikulin involution and we give examples of the general K3 surface in various components. We conclude with some remarks on Morrison-Nikulin involutions, these are Nikulin involutions which interchange two copies of E8(-1) in the Neron Severi group.

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