O'Grady's generalized Franchetta conjecture for polarized K3 surfaces

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For each g≥3g\ge 3, let Fg′\mathcal F_g' be the smooth dense open moduli space of primitively polarized K3 surfaces of degree 2g−22g-2 with trivial automorphism groups, and let

π:Sg′→Fg′\pi:\mathcal S_g'\to\mathcal F_g'

be the universal K3 surface. For a closed point x∈Fg′x\in\mathcal F_g', write Sx:=π−1(x)S_x:=\pi^{-1}(x), and let oSxo_{S_x} denote its Beauville–Voisin class in CH⁡2(Sx)\operatorname{CH}^2(S_x). O'Grady's generalized Franchetta conjecture. For every class a∈CH⁡2(Sg′)a\in\operatorname{CH}^2(\mathcal S_g'), the restriction a∣Sxa|_{S_x} is a multiple of oSxo_{S_x}.

The conjecture asks whether codimension-two cycles on the universal polarized K3 surface restrict on every fiber to multiples of the canonical Beauville–Voisin zero-cycle. The abstract states that the conjecture has an affirmative answer in genus 1111, while the assertion for general g≥3g\ge 3 is not established here.

References

Primary source

Yuan Lu, “On O'Grady's generalized Franchetta conjecture for genus 11 K3 surfaces”, arXiv:2511.16875 (2025).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2201.02367, arXiv:1708.02919, arXiv:1703.04733.

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