Double covers of EPW-sextics

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2010-07-28

arxiv.org/abs/1007.4952v2

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EPW-sextics are special 4-dimensional sextic hypersurfaces (with 20 moduli) which come equipped with a double cover. We analyze the double cover of EPW-sextics parametrized by a certain prime divisor in the moduli space. We associate to the generic sextic parametrized by that divisor a K3 surface of genus 6 and we show that the double epw sextic is a contraction of the Hilbert square of the K3. This result has two consequences. First it gives a new proof of the following result of ours: smooth double EPW-sextics form a locally complete family of hyperkaehler projective deformations of the Hilbert square of a K3. Secondly it shows that away from another prime divisor in the moduli space the period map for double EPW-sextics is as well-behaved as it possibly could be.

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