Uniqueness conjecture for lattices associated with symplectic K3 degenerations

Let HH be a finite symplectic automorphism group of a Kählerian K3 surface, with abstract group type indexed by nn, and let the degeneration type be specified by a Dynkin diagram. For a Kählerian K3 surface XX with SX<0S_X<0, let P(X)P(X) be the set of classes of nonsingular rational curves on XX, let

NH=((SX)H)SXN_H=((S_X)^H)^{\perp}_{S_X}

be the coinvariant sublattice, and suppose that SXS_X is generated by NHN_H and P(X)P(X) up to finite index, with

rkSX=rkNH+1.\operatorname{rk} S_X=\operatorname{rk} N_H+1.

Uniqueness conjecture. For a fixed abstract group type of HH (equivalently, a fixed nn) and a fixed Dynkin-diagram type of degeneration, the corresponding lattice

S=[NH,αi,j]prS=[N_H,\alpha_{i,j}]_{pr}

is unique up to isomorphism. Equivalently, the isomorphism class of S=SXS=S_X is uniquely determined by the abstract group type of HH and the Dynkin-diagram type of P(X)P(X), except in exactly two cases: n=34n=34, equivalently HS4H\cong \mathfrak S_4, with degeneration type 6A16\mathbb A_1, and n=10n=10, equivalently HD8H\cong D_8, with degeneration type 2A12\mathbb A_1. In each exceptional case there are exactly two isomorphism classes of lattices SS. This conjecture refines the preceding result that the discriminant group of the corresponding lattice is determined by the group and degeneration types; the two stated exceptions are the only failures of uniqueness of the lattice itself.

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Viacheslav V. Nikulin, “Degenerations of Kahlerian K3 surfaces with finite symplectic automorphism groups”, arXiv:1403.6061 (2014).

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