On the irrationality of moduli spaces of K3 surfaces

Abstract: In this talk, we consider quantitative measures of irrationality for moduli spaces of polarized K3 surfaces of genus g. We show that, for infinitely many examples, the degree of irrationality is bounded polynomially in terms of g, so that these spaces become more irrational, but not too fast. The key insight is that the irrationality is bounded by the coefficients of a certain modular form of weight 11. This is joint work with Ignacio Barros and Kuan-Wen Lai.

algebraic geometrynumber theory

Audience: researchers in the topic

SFU NT-AG seminar

Series comments: The Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry (NT-AG) seminar is a research seminar dedicated to topics related to number theory and algebraic geometry hosted by the NT-AG group (Nils Bruin, Imin Chen, Stephen Choi, Katrina Honigs, Nathan Ilten, Marni Mishna).

We acknowledge the support of PIMS, NSERC, and SFU.

For Fall 2025, the organizers are Katrina Honigs and Peter McDonald.

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