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Supersingular K3 surfaces are unirational

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Abstract

We show that supersingular K3 surfaces in characteristic $$p\ge 5$$p≥5 are related by purely inseparable isogenies. This implies that they are unirational, which proves conjectures of Artin, Rudakov, Shafarevich, and Shioda. As a byproduct, we exhibit the moduli space of rigidified K3 crystals as an iterated $${{\mathbb P}}^1$$P1-bundle over $${{\mathbb F}}_{p^2}$$Fp2. To complete the picture, we also establish Shioda–Inose type isogeny theorems for K3 surfaces with Picard rank $$\rho \ge 19$$ρ≥19 in positive characteristic.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)979-1014
Number of pages36
JournalInventiones Mathematicae
Volume200
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Jun 2015

Keywords

  • 14D22
  • 14G17
  • 14J28
  • 14M20

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