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Classifications of Elliptic Fibrations of a Singular K3 Surface

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We classify, up to automorphisms, the elliptic fibrations on the singular K3 surface X whose transcendental lattice is isometric to \(\langle 6\rangle \oplus \langle 2\rangle\).

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Acknowledgements

We thank the organizers and all those who supported our project for their efficiency, their tenacity and expertise. The authors of the paper have enjoyed the hospitality of CIRM at Luminy, which helped to initiate a very fruitful collaboration, gathering from all over the world junior and senior women, bringing their skill, experience, and knowledge from geometry and number theory. Our gratitude goes also to the referee for pertinent remarks and helpful comments.

A.G is supported by FIRB 2012 “Moduli Spaces and Their Applications” and by PRIN 2010–2011 “Geometria delle varietà algebriche.” C.S is supported by FAPERJ (grant E26/112.422/2012). U.W. thanks the NSF-AWM Travel Grant Program for supporting her visit to CIRM.

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Bertin, M.J. et al. (2015). Classifications of Elliptic Fibrations of a Singular K3 Surface. In: Bertin, M., Bucur, A., Feigon, B., Schneps, L. (eds) Women in Numbers Europe. Association for Women in Mathematics Series, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17987-2_2

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