arXiv · 2610.17536
Hyperelliptic curves on $K3$ surfaces
Abstract
We study hyperelliptic curves on $K3$ surfaces. We show that any number of general points on a $K3$ surface of Picard rank one can be connected by a hyperelliptic curve. As a by-product we recover the Beauville--Voisin decomposition of the small diagonal, together with some new bounds on its torsion order in the integral Chow group. On the arithmetic side, given a $K3$ surface $X$ of geometric Picard rank one defined over a number field $k$, we show that there exists a finite extension $k\subset k'$ such that quadratic points are dense in $X_{k'}$, extending a theorem of Corvaja--Zucconi to $K3$ surfaces of arbitrary degree.
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Federico Moretti. 2026-10-13. Hyperelliptic curves on $K3$ surfaces. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.17536
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