Shioda's unirationality conjecture for K3 surfaces

A K3 surface is a smooth projective surface with trivial canonical bundle and h1(S,OS)=0h^1(S,\mathcal O_S)=0. It is Shioda-supersingular when its Picard number equals its second Betti number:

ρ(S)=b2(S).\rho(S)=b_2(S).

Shioda's conjecture. A K3 surface is unirational if and only if it is Shioda-supersingular.

Unirational K3 surfaces and the known examples from Kummer and Fermat surfaces support this equivalence. The conjecture was known in characteristic 22 through the classification of Shioda-supersingular K3 surfaces and the existence of quasi-elliptic fibrations, but the source does not state a complete resolution.

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Primary source

Christian Liedtke, “Algebraic Surfaces in Positive Characteristic”, arXiv:0912.4291 (2013).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2008–2009). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0805.3986.

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