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We review the standard formulation of mirror symmetry for Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in toric varieties, and compare this construction to a description of mirror symmetry for K3 surfaces which relies on a sublattice of the Picard lattice. We then show how to combine information about the Picard group of a toric ambient space with data about automorphisms of the toric variety to identify families of K3 surfaces with high Picard rank.
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Whitcher, U. (2015). Reflexive Polytopes and Lattice-Polarized K3 Surfaces. In: Laza, R., Schütt, M., Yui, N. (eds) Calabi-Yau Varieties: Arithmetic, Geometry and Physics. Fields Institute Monographs, vol 34. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2830-9_3
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