Session 3. Arithmetic Geometry

No-liftability of automorphism groups of a K3 surface in positive characteristic

Héléne Esnault, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
For a K3 surface in characteristic \(p\ge 3\), there is a projective model \(X_R\to {Spec \, R}\) in characteristic \(0\) with Picard number \(1\) over a geometric generic point. In particular, this model essentially kills all automorphisms. There is a supersingular K3 surface in characteristic \(3\), with an automorphism of positive entropy, the logarithm of a Salem number of degree \(22\), which does not lift to characteristic \(0\) at all. We construct elliptic K3 surfaces in characteristic \(p\ge 3\) such that the automorphism group of any lifting to characteristic \(0\) does not hit the whole automorphism subgroup of the Mordell-Weil group of the elliptic fibrations and some automorphisms of positive entropy. (joint work with K. Oguiso)
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