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Finite symplectic actions on the K3 lattice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2016

Kenji Hashimoto*
Affiliation:
Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 130-722, Korea, hashimoto@kias.re.kr
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In this paper, we study finite symplectic actions on K3 surfaces X, that is, actions of finite groups G on X which act on H2,0(X) trivially. We show that the action on the K3 lattice H2(X, ℤ) induced by a symplectic action of G on X depends only on G up to isomorphism, except for five groups.

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Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 2012

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