Strong uniform boundedness conjecture for Brauer groups of K3 surfaces without fixed Picard lattice

Let kk be a number field with [k:Q]d[k:\mathbb{Q}]\leq d, and let X/kX/k be a K3 surface. The quotient Br(X)/Br0(X)\operatorname{Br}(X)/\operatorname{Br}_0(X) is finite, where Br0(X)\operatorname{Br}_0(X) is the subgroup of constant algebras.

Strong uniform boundedness conjecture. If XX is a K3 surface over a number field of bounded degree dd, then

#Br(X)Br0(X)\#\frac{\operatorname{Br}(X)}{\operatorname{Br}_0(X)}

is bounded in terms of dd, independently of XX.

This is a stronger version of the lattice-polarized boundedness conjecture, dispensing with the fixed lattice LL. The source presents it as a conjecture inspired by a conjecture of Shafarevich and gives no resolution status.

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Primary source

Danny Bragg, Emma Brakkee and Anthony Várilly-Alvarado, “Moduli of lattice-polarized K3 surfaces and boundedness of Brauer groups”, arXiv:2510.11477 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2201.09503, arXiv:1705.10401.

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