In Beauville's "Counting rational curves on K3 surfaces" is implictly assumed the existence of algebraic K3 surfaces with Pic of rank one and generated by a curve of genus g. How do we show the existence of such K3 surfaces ? **Edit**: See Ferreti's first comment below for an answer. --- Using the argument pointed out by Ferreti in his first and second comments, we can reduce the existence of the sought K3 surfaces to the following statement: > There exists infinitely many integers > k for which (2k)(2k +3) is > squarefree. Start with a smooth quartic S in P(3) and let H be a hyperplane section. For a fixed r and k>>0, the restriction of kH to S is r-very ample. Suppose S contains a line L. Then the linear system |E|=|H-L| defines a fibration by elliptic curves on S. Thus kH + E is also r-very ample. Let SS be a family of K3 surfaces that deforms S in such a way that the class of O(k) is preserved, and for a generic member of the family every element in H1,1\cap H^2(Z) not proportional to O(k) becomes non-rational. Thus the generic element has Pic = Z. Since r-very ampleness is an open condition ( the points in the relative Hilb^r(SS) where it does not hold is closed) we obtain a K3 surface with Pic = Z and a r-very ample line-bundle of self-intersection 4k^2 + 6k = 2k(2k +3). If this number is squarefree then the line bundle is primitive. --- After googling a bit I found general results about squarefree values of polynomials which seems to ensure the existence of infinitely many integers k for which 2k(2k +3) is squarefree. --- **Edit:** I would like to know if it is necessary to impose the number theoretical condition to obtain primitiviness.