K3 surfaces have garnered attention across various fields, from optics and dynamics to high energy physics, making them a subject of extensive study for many decades. Recent work by mathematicians, including Brandhorst [1], has focused on non-symplectic automorphisms, aiming to categorize K3 surfaces that admit such automorphisms. Brandhorst made a list of unique K3 surfaces with purely non-symplectic automorphisms and established specific criteria for a K3 surface to be isomorphic to one on his list. This thesis aims to provide an alternative representation of select K3 surfaces from Brandhorst's list. While Brandhorst predominantly characterizes these surfaces as elliptic K3 surfaces, we offer a description of these surfaces as hypersurfaces in weighted projective space. Our approach involves verifying the criteria established by Brandhorst, thereby establishing an isomorphism between the surfaces in question. Through this study, we contribute to the understanding of K3 surfaces and their automorphisms while also demonstrating the correspondence between different spaces and methodologies for analyzing K3 surfaces. This work lays the groundwork for further investigations into K3 surfaces with purely non-symplectic automorphisms, paving the way for deeper insights into their structural properties and geometric intricacies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BGMYU2/oai:scholarsarchive.byu.edu:etd-11389 |
| Date | 22 April 2024 |
| Creators | Melville, Elizabeth |
| Publisher | BYU ScholarsArchive |
| Source Sets | Brigham Young University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Theses and Dissertations |
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