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Supersingular K3 surfaces in odd characteristic and sextic double planes

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We show that every supersingular K3 surface is birational to a double cover of a projective plane.

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  1. Division of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan

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Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 14J28, 14Q10, 11H55

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Shimada, I. Supersingular K3 surfaces in odd characteristic and sextic double planes. Math. Ann. 328, 451–468 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-003-0494-x

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