Singularities of elliptic curves in $K3$ surfaces and the Beauville-Voisin zero-cycle

Abstract

Under some hypotheses on the singular type of the one-parameter family of elliptic curves in a primitively polarized $K3$ surface $S$ determined by its polarization (which is expected to be true for a very general polarized $K3$ surface), we give a more geometric proof of the fact that the second Chern class of $S$ is equal to $24\cdot o_S$ in the Chow group of $0$-cycles where $o_S$ is the Beauville-Voisin canonical $0$-cycle.