Rational curves on elliptic K3 surfaces

Abstract

We prove that any non-isotrivial elliptic K3 surface over an algebraically closed field $k$ of arbitrary characteristic contains infinitely many rational curves. In the case when $\mathrm{char}(k)\ne 2,3$, we prove this result for any elliptic K3 surface. When the characteristic of $k$ is zero, this result is due to the work of Bogomolov-Tschinkel and Hassett.

arXiv commentLemma 2.4 (2) fixed. To appear in Mathematical Research Letters