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Questions about K3 surfaces, which are smooth complex surfaces $X$ with trivial canonical bundle and vanishing $H^1(O_X)$. They are examples of Calabi-Yau varieties of dimension $2$.

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Question on K3 Surface

Do you want your K3 to be smooth? In that case the answer is no. For the double cover to have a trivial canonical class you will have to chose a branch divisor which is a section in half of the anti-c …
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Genus two pencil in K3 surface

You will get such a pencil of genus two curves provided that the base point of the pencil of lines is not one of the nine points that you blew up to get your $E(1)$. But if the goal was to construct …
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Singular K3 -- mathematical meaning?

I am not completely sure what the question is here so let me say something about the picture in general. There is no "vanishing K3" in Vafa's description. The singular K3 geometry that Vafa is talking …
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