We consider a semistable degeneration of K3 surfaces, equipped with an effective divisor that defines a polarisation of degree two on a general fibre. We show that the map to the relative log canonical model of the degeneration maps every fibre to either a sextic hypersurface in P(1, 1, 1, 3) or a complete intersection of degree (2, 6) in P(1, 1, 1, 2, 3). Furthermore, we find an explicit description of the hypersurfaces and complete intersections that can arise, thereby giving a full classification of the possible singular fibres.
History
School
Science
Department
Mathematical Sciences
Published in
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
Volume
366
Issue
1
Pages
219 - 243
Citation
THOMPSON, A., 2014. Degenerations of K3 surfaces of degree two. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 366(1), pp. 219-243.
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Publication date
2014
Notes
First published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 366(1), pp. 219-243 2014, published by the American Mathematical Society.