Gauss-Prym maps on Enriques surfaces

We prove that the kth Gaussian map ${\gamma }_H^k$ is surjective on a polarized unnodal Enriques surface $(S,H)$ with $\phi (H)>2k+4$. In particular, as a consequence, when $\phi (H)>4(k+2)$, we obtain the surjectivity of the kth Gauss-Prym map ${\gamma }_{{\omega }_C\otimes \alpha }^k$, with $\alpha :={\omega }_{{S|}_C}$, on smooth hyperplane sections $C\in |H|$. In case $k=1$, it is sufficient to ask $\phi (H)>6$.     

Monodromy groups of real Enriques surfaces

We compute the monodromy groups of real Enriques surfaces of hyperbolic type. The principal tools are the deformation classification of such surfaces and a modified version of Donaldson?s trick, relating real Enriques surfaces and real rational surfaces.     

Enriques surfaces and Jacobian elliptic K3 surfaces

This paper proposes a new geometric construction of Enriques surfaces. Its starting point are K3 surfaces with Jacobian elliptic fibration which arise from rational elliptic surfaces by a quadratic base change. The Enriques surfaces obtained in this way are characterised by elliptic fibrations with a rational curve as bisection which splits into two sections on the covering K3 surface. The construction has applications to the study of Enriques surfaces with specific automorphisms. It also allows us to answer a question of Beauville about Enriques surfaces whose Brauer groups show an exceptional behaviour. In a forthcoming paper, we will study arithmetic consequences of our construction.     

Rational double points on Enriques surfaces

We classify,up to some lattice-theoretic equivalence,all possible configurations of rational double points that can appear on a surface whose minimal resolution is a complex Enriques surface.     

Exceptional vector bundles on Enriques surfaces

The main purpose of this paper is to study exceptional vector bundles on Enriques surfaces. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 61, No. 6, pp. 825–834, June, 1997.     

Projective models of Enriques surfaces in scrolls

We study Cossec's ? ‐function, which is defined for divisors with positive self‐intersection on an Enriques surface. In this paper we study the existence of pairs (C ², ? (C )) with C an irreducible curve. The ? ‐function gives in a natural way scrolls containing Enriques surfaces. We compute scroll types to some of these scrolls. (© 2006 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Exceptional bundles on nodal Enriques surfaces

In this paper we prove that an Enriques surfaceX has a smooth rational curve if and only if there exists an exceptional bundleE _t of rank 2 withc ₂ (E _t )=t for any integer t onX. We describe all exceptional bundles of rank 2 on Enriques surfaces and show that they are all stable with respect to any ample divisor.     

Special rank two vector bundles over Enriques surfaces

Partially supported by the European Science project Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, Contract SCJ-0398-C(A)     

On nodal Enriques surfaces and quartic double solids

We consider the class of singular double coverings \(X \rightarrow {\mathbb {P}}^3\) ramified in the degeneration locus \(D\) of a family of 2-dimensional quadrics. These are precisely the quartic double solids constructed by Artin and Mumford as examples of unirational but nonrational conic bundles. With such a quartic surface \(D,\) one can associate an Enriques surface \(S\) which is the factor of the blowup of \(D\) by a natural involution acting without fixed points (such Enriques surfaces are known as nodal Enriques surfaces or Reye congruences). We show that the nontrivial part of the derived category of coherent sheaves on this Enriques surface \(S\) is equivalent to the nontrivial part of the derived category of a minimal resolution of singularities of \(X\).     

On kth-order embeddings of K3 surfaces and Enriques surfaces

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for a big and nef line bundle L of any degree on a K3 surface or on an Enriques surface S to be k-very ample and k-spanned. Furthermore, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a spanned and big line bundle on a K3 surface S to be birationally k-very ample and birationally k-spanned (our definition), and relate these concepts to the Clifford index and gonality of smooth curves in |L| and the existence of a particular type of rank 2 bundles on S. Received: 28 March 2000 / Revised version: 20 October 2000     

Ulrich line bundles on Enriques surfaces with a polarization of degree four

In this paper, we prove the existence of an Enriques surface with a polarization of degree four with an Ulrich bundle of rank one. As a consequence, we prove that general polarized Enriques surfaces of degree four, with the same numerical polarization class, carry Ulrich line bundles.