Elliptic K3 surfaces as dynamical models and their Hamiltonian monodromy

This note deals with Lagrangian fibrations of elliptic K3 surfaces and the associated Hamiltonian monodromy. The fibration is constructed through the Weierstraß normal form of elliptic surfaces. There is given an example of K3 dynamical models with the identity monodromy matrix around 12 elementary singular loci.     

Linear systems on rational elliptic surfaces and elliptic fibrations on K3 surfaces

We consider K3 surfaces which are double covers of rational elliptic surfaces. The former are endowed with a natural elliptic fibration, which is induced by the latter. There are also other elliptic fibrations on such K3 surfaces, which are necessarily induced by special linear systems on the rational elliptic surfaces. We describe these linear systems. In particular, we observe that every conic bundle on the rational surface induces a genus 1 fibration on the K3 surface and we classify the singular fibers of the genus 1 fibration on the K3 surface it terms of singular fibers and special curves on the conic bundle on the rational surface.     

Fuzzy Fractional Monodromy and the Section–Hyperboloid

A theorem about the matrix of fractional monodromy will be formulated. The monodromy corresponds to going around a fiber with a singular point of oscillator type with arbitrary resonance. The reason of fractional monodromy and fuzziness of such a monodromy is explained. Some ideas for the proof of the theorem are given. A few remarks about the semi-global structure of singular lagrangian fibration are made. Lecture held in the Seminario Matematico e Fisico di Milano on November 8, 2004 Received: June 2007     

Singular Fibers in Elliptic Fibrations on the Rational Elliptic Surface

We determine the combinations of singular fibers a locally holomorphic elliptic fibration on the rational elliptic surface can admit. This problem has been answered for globally holomorphic elliptic fibrations by Persson and Miranda [12], [9]; we compare our methods and results to theirs. In particular, we find combinations of singular fibers which can be realized by locally holomorphic fibrations but not by globally holomorphic ones.     

Two remarks on sextic double solids

We study the potential density of rational points on double solids ramified along singular reduced sextic surfaces. Also, we investigate elliptic fibration structures on nonsingular sextic double solids defined over a perfect field of characteristic 5.     

New families of Calabi-Yau threefolds without maximal unipotent monodromy

The aim of this paper is to construct families of Calabi-Yau threefolds without boundary points with maximal unipotent monodromy and to describe the variation of their Hodge structures. In particular five families are constructed. In all these cases the variation of the Hodge structures of the Calabi-Yau threefolds is basically the variation of the Hodge structures of a family of curves. This allows us to write explicitly the Picard-Fuchs equation for the one-dimensional families. These Calabi-Yau threefolds are desingularizations of quotients of the product of a (fixed) elliptic curve and a K3 surface admitting an automorphisms of order 4 (with some particular properties). We show that these K3 surfaces admit an isotrivial elliptic fibration.     

Elliptic K3 Surfaces with Abelian and Dihedral Groups of Symplectic Automorphisms

We analyze K3 surfaces admitting an elliptic fibration ? and a finite group G of symplectic automorphisms preserving this elliptic fibration. We construct the quotient elliptic fibration ?/G comparing its properties to the ones of ?.

We show that if ? admits an n-torsion section, its quotient by the group of automorphisms induced by this section admits again an n-torsion section, and we describe the coarse moduli space of K3 surfaces with a given finite group contained in the Mordell–Weil group.

Considering automorphisms coming from the base of the fibration, we find the Mordell–Weil lattice of a fibration described by Kloosterman, and we find K3 surfaces with dihedral groups as group of symplectic automorphisms. We prove the isometries between lattices described by the author and Sarti and lattices described by Shioda and by Greiss and Lam.     

Some remarks on Brauer groups of K3 surfaces

We discuss the geometry of the genus one fibrations associated to an elliptic fibration on a K3 surface. We show that the two-torsion subgroup of the Brauer group of a general elliptic fibration is naturally isomorphic to the two torsion of the Jacobian of a curve associated to the fibration. We remark that this is related to Recillas’ trigonal construction. Finally we discuss the two-torsion in the Brauer group of a general K3 surface with a polarization of degree two.     

On a Relative Fourier–Mukai Transform on Genus One Fibrations

We study relative Fourier–Mukai transforms on genus one fibrations with section, allowing explicitly the total space of the fibration to be singular and non-projective. Grothendieck duality is used to prove a skew–commutativity relation between this equivalence of categories and certain duality functors. We use our results to explicitly construct examples of semi-stable sheaves on degenerating families of elliptic curves.     

On K3 surfaces with large complex structure

We discuss a notion of large complex structure for elliptic K3 surfaces with section inspired by the eight-dimensional F-theory/heterotic duality in string theory. This concept is naturally associated with the Type II Mumford partial compactification of the moduli space of periods for these structures. The paper provides an explicit Hodge-theoretic condition for the complex structure of an elliptic K3 surface with section to be large. We also establish certain geometric consequences of this large complex structure condition in terms of the Kodaira types of the singular fibers of the elliptic fibration.     

Basic intersection cohomology of conical fibrations

We introduce notions of singular fibration and singular Seifert fibration. These notions naturally generalize that o locally trivial fibration to the category of stratified pseudomanifolds. For singular foliations determined by such fibrations, we prove the de Rham theorem for basic intersection cohomology recently introduced by the present authors. One of the main examples of such a structure is the natural projection to the space of fibers of a singular Riemannian foliation determined by a Lie group action on a compact smooth manifold.     

Real analytic elliptic surfaces

Here, we give an upper bound for the number of connected components of the real locus of several smooth complex compact elliptic surfaces defined over R in terms of the type of the singular fibers of their elliptic fibration.     

Basic intersection cohomology of conical fibrations

We introduce notions of singular fibration and singular Seifert fibration. These notions naturally generalize that o locally trivial fibration to the category of stratified pseudomanifolds. For singular foliations determined by such fibrations, we prove the de Rham theorem for basic intersection cohomology recently introduced by the present authors. One of the main examples of such a structure is the natural projection to the space of fibers of a singular Riemannian foliation determined by a Lie group action on a compact smooth manifold.Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, vol. 77, no. 2, 2005, pp. 235–257.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by M. Saralegi-Aranguren, R. Wolak.This revised version was published online in April 2005 with a corrected issue number.     

Fourier-Mukai transforms for Gorenstein schemes

We extend to singular schemes with Gorenstein singularities or fibered in schemes of that kind Bondal and Orlov's criterion for an integral functor to be fully faithful. We also prove that the original condition of characteristic zero cannot be removed by providing a counterexample in positive characteristic. We contemplate a criterion for equivalence as well. In addition, we prove that for locally projective Gorenstein morphisms, a relative integral functor is fully faithful if and only if its restriction to each fibre is also fully faithful. These results imply the invertibility of the usual relative Fourier-Mukai transform for an elliptic fibration as a direct corollary.     

Symplectic homology of Lefschetz fibrations and Floer homology of the monodromy map

We construct a spectral sequence converging to symplectic homology of a Lefschetz fibration whose E ¹ page is related to Floer homology of the monodromy symplectomorphism and its iterates. We use this to show the existence of fixed points of certain symplectomorphisms.     

Rationality of Moduli of Elliptic Fibrations with Fixed Monodromy

We prove rationality results for moduli spaces of elliptic K3 surfaces and elliptic rational surfaces with fixed monodromy groups.     

Fractional monodromy: parallel transport of homology cycles

A 2n-dimensional completely integrable system gives rise to a singular fibration whose generic fiber is the n-torus Tⁿ. In the classical setting, it is possible to define a parallel transport of elements of the fundamental group of a fiber along a path, when the path describes a loop around a singular fiber, it defines an automorphism of π₁(Tⁿ) called monodromy transformation [J.J. Duistermaat, On global action-angle coordinates, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 33 (6) (1980) 687–706]. Some systems give rise to a non-classical setting, in which the path can wind around a singular fiber only by crossing a codimension 1 submanifold of special singular fibers (a wall), in this case a non-classical parallel transport can be defined on a subgroup of the fundamental group. This gives rise to what is known as monodromy with fractional coefficients [N. Nekhoroshev, D. Sadovskiì, B. Zhilinskiì, Fractional monodromy of resonant classical and quantum oscillators, Comptes Rendus Mathematique 335 (11) (2002) 985–988]. In this article, we give a precise meaning to the non-classical parallel transport. In particular we show that it is a homologic process and not a homotopic one. We justify this statement by describing the type of singular fibers that generate a wall that can be crossed, by describing the parallel transport in a semi-local neighbourhood of the wall of singularities, and by producing a family of 4-dimensional examples.