On the Vinberg Family of K3 Surfaces

Abstract

We study orthogonal modular forms associated with moduli spaces of lattice-polarized K3 surfaces whose generic transcendental lattices are of the form $T=H\oplus H\oplus L(-1)$ where $L$ is a root lattice of type $A_n$ or $D_n$. In Picard numbers $10$ through $17$, we use explicit Jacobian elliptic fibrations to construct modular forms on type IV domains associated with orthogonal groups ${\mathrm{O}}^{+}(T)$. We show that the coefficients of suitable Weierstrass models naturally realize generators for the corresponding graded rings of orthogonal modular forms.

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