Counting rational curves on K3 surfaces

dc.creatorBeauville, Arnaud
dc.date1997-01-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:07:10Z
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dc.descriptionThe aim of these notes is to explain the remarkable formula found by Yau and Zaslow to express the number of rational curves on a K3 surface. Projective K3 surfaces fall into countably many families F(g) (g>0); a surface in F(g) admits a g-dimensional linear system of curves of genus g. Such a system contains a positive number, say n(g), of rational (highly singular) curves. The formula is \sum n(g) q^g = q/D((q), where D(q) = q \prod (1-q^n)^{24} is the well-known modular form of weight 12.
dc.descriptionPlain TeX, 11 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9701019
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9701019
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/150272
dc.subjectAlgebraic Geometry
dc.titleCounting rational curves on K3 surfaces
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