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GIT versus Baily-Borel compactification for K3's which are double covers of P1×P1

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Abstract

In previous work, we have introduced a program aimed at studying the birational geometry of locally symmetric varieties of Type IV associated to moduli of certain projective varieties of K3 type. In particular, a concrete goal of our program is to understand the relationship between GIT and Baily-Borel compactifications for quartic K3 surfaces, K3's which are double covers of a smooth quadric surface, and double EPW sextics. In our first paper [36], based on arithmetic considerations, we have given conjectural decompositions into simple birational transformations of the period maps from the GIT moduli spaces mentioned above to the corresponding Baily-Borel compactifications. In our second paper [35] we studied the case of quartic K3's; we have given geometric meaning to this decomposition and we have partially verified our conjectures. Here, we give a full proof of the conjectures in [36] for the moduli space of K3's which are double covers of a smooth quadric surface. The main new tool here is VGIT for (2,4) complete intersection curves.

Original languageEnglish
Article number107680
JournalAdvances in Mathematics
Volume383
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 4 2021

Keywords

  • Baily-Borel compactification
  • Variation of GIT

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