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    Hasse principle for Kummer varieties in the case of generic 2-torsion

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    Conditional on finiteness of relevant Shafarevich--Tate groups, Harpaz and Skorobogatov used Swinnerton-Dyer's descent-fibration method to establish the Hasse principle for Kummer varieties associated to a 2-covering of a principally polarised abelian variety under certain largeness assumptions on its mod 2 Galois image. Their method breaks down however when the Galois image is maximal, due to the possible failure of the Shafarevich--Tate group of quadratic twists of A to have square order. In this work we overcome this obstruction by combining second descent ideas in the spirit of Harpaz and Smith with results on the parity of 2-infinity Selmer ranks in quadratic twist families. This allows Swinnerton-Dyer's method to be successfully applied to K3 surfaces arising as quotients of 2-coverings of Jacobians of genus 2 curves with no rational Weierstrass points.Comment: 23 pages, comments welcom

    Supersingular K3 Surfaces are Unirational

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    We show that supersingular K3 surfaces in characteristic p5p\geq5 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 P1\mathbb{P}^1-bundle over Fp2\mathbb{F}_{p^2}. To complete the picture, we also establish Shioda-Inose type isogeny theorems for K3 surfaces with Picard rank ρ19\rho\geq19 in positive characteristic.Comment: 31 pages; many details added, final versio

    Lagrangian fibrations of holomorphic-symplectic varieties of K3^[n]-type

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    Let X be a compact Kahler holomorphic-symplectic manifold, which is deformation equivalent to the Hilbert scheme of length n subschemes of a K3 surface. Let L be a nef line-bundle on X, such that the 2n-th power of c_1(L) vanishes and c_1(L) is primitive. Assume that the two dimensional subspace H^{2,0}(X) + H^{0,2}(X), of the second cohomology of X with complex coefficients, intersects trivially the integral cohomology. We prove that the linear system of L is base point free and it induces a Lagrangian fibration on X. In particular, the line-bundle L is effective. A determination of the semi-group of effective divisor classes on X follows, when X is projective. For a generic such pair (X,L), not necessarily projective, we show that X is bimeromorphic to a Tate-Shafarevich twist of a moduli space of stable torsion sheaves, each with pure one dimensional support, on a projective K3 surface.Comment: 34 pages. v3: Reference [Mat5] and Remark 1.8 added. Incorporated improvement to the exposition and corrected typos according to the referees suggestions. To appear in the proceedings of the conference Algebraic and Complex Geometry, Hannover 201
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