Quasi-Galois points for quartic surfaces

Abstract

We study quasi-Galois points, which are a generalization of Galois points. We characterize smooth quartic surfaces admitting a quasi-Galois point in terms of K3 surfaces with a certain involution, and provide a criterion for quasi-Galois points for quartic surfaces. Moreover, we also determine all quasi-Galois points of the Fermat quartic surface and show that it has exactly 28 quasi-Galois points.

17 pages