Brill-Noether general K3 surfaces with the maximal number of elliptic pencils of minimal degree

Abstract

We explicitly construct Brill--Noether general $K3$ surfaces of genus $4,6$ and $8$ having the maximal number of elliptic pencils of degrees $3,4$ and $5$, respectively, and study their moduli spaces and moduli maps to the moduli space of curves. As an application we prove the existence of Brill--Noether general $K3$ surfaces of genus $4$ and $6$ without stable Lazarsfeld--Mukai bundles of minimal $c_2$.

21 pages, ancillary Macaulay2 file on the authors' homepage, improvement of the main theorem for K3 surfaces of genus 8