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K3 Surfaces of Picard Rank One and Degree Two

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We construct explicit examples of K3 surfaces over  which are of degree 2 and geometric Picard rank 1. We construct, particularly, examples of the form \(w^2 = \det M\) where M is a (3 ×3)-matrix of ternary quadratic forms.

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  1. Mathematisches Institut, Universität Göttingen, Bunsenstraße 3–5, D-37073, Göttingen, Germany

    Andreas-Stephan Elsenhans & Jörg Jahnel

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Elsenhans, AS., Jahnel, J. (2008). K3 Surfaces of Picard Rank One and Degree Two. In: van der Poorten, A.J., Stein, A. (eds) Algorithmic Number Theory. ANTS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5011. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79456-1_14

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