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Miranda–Persson’s problem on extremal elliptic K3 surfaces

Enrique Artal Bartolo, Hiro-o Tokunaga and De-Qi Zhang

Vol. 202 (2002), No. 1, 37–72
Abstract

In one of their early works, Miranda and Persson have classified all possible configurations of singular fibers for semistable extremal elliptic fibrations on K3 surfaces. They also obtained the Mordell-Weil groups in terms of the singular fibers except for 17 cases where the determination and the uniqueness of the groups were not settled. In this paper, we settle these problems completely. We also show that for all cases with ‘larger’ Mordell-Weil groups, this group, together with the singular fibre type, determines uniquely the fibration structure of the K3 surface (up to based fibre-space isomorphisms).

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Received: 15 February 2000
Published: 1 January 2002
Authors
Enrique Artal Bartolo
Departamento de Matemáticas
Universidad de Zaragoza
Campus Plaza San Francisco s/n
E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Hiro-o Tokunaga
Department of Mathematics
Kochi University
Kochi 780, Japan
De-Qi Zhang
Department of Mathematics
National University of Singapore
Lower Kent Ridge Road
Singapore 119260