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most citedCompactifications of moduli of elliptic K3 surfaces: stable pair and toroidal

19 citations · 66 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

math.AG2026

Complex structures on

Philip Engel

A recent manuscript produced by Claude under the direction of Levent Alpöge constructs a 1-parameter family of compact complex threefolds diffeomorphic to . Our goal is to des…

math.AG2026

Polync varieties and multiparameter Kulikov models

Philip Engel

We study "polync varieties", whose singularities are locally products of normal crossing (nc) singularities. We introduce the notion of d-semistability of such varieties, and gener…

math.AG2025

On lattice-polarized K3 surfaces

Valery Alexeev, Philip Engel

We propose modifications to the commonly used definitions of lattice-polarized and lattice-quasipolarized smooth K3 surfaces, collecting various versions of the definition, and det…

math.AG2024

Shafarevich's conjecture for families of hypersurfaces over function fields

Philip Engel, Alice Lin, Salim Tayou

Given a smooth quasi-projective complex algebraic variety , we prove that there are only finitely many Hodge-generic non-isotrivial families of smooth projective hyper…

math.AG2023

Compact moduli of Enriques surfaces with a numerical polarization of degree 2

Valery Alexeev, Philip Engel, D. Zack Garza +1

We describe a geometric, stable pair compactification of the moduli space of Enriques surfaces with a numerical polarization of degree 2, and identify it with a semitoroidal compac…

math.AG2023★ 1 cited

Periods of elliptic surfaces with

Philip Engel, François Greer, Abigail Ward

We prove that the period mapping is dominant for elliptic surfaces over an elliptic curve with 12 nodal fibers, and that its degree is larger than 1.

math.AG2023

On the non-abelian Hodge locus I

Philip Engel, Salim Tayou

We partially resolve conjectures of Deligne and Simpson concerning -local systems on quasi-projective varieties that underlie a polarized variation of Hodge structure.…

math.AG2023

Mixed mock modularity of special divisors

Philip Engel, François Greer, Salim Tayou

We prove that the generating series of special divisors in toroidal compactifications of orthogonal Shimura varieties is a mixed mock modular form. More precisely, we find an expli…

math.AG2022

The Manin-Mumford conjecture in genus 2 and rational curves on K3 surfaces

Philip Engel, Raju Krishnamoorthy, Daniel Litt

Let be a simple abelian surface over an algebraically closed field . Let be the set of torsion points of such that there exists a genus curve …

math.AG2022

Compactifications of moduli spaces of K3 surfaces with a nonsymplectic involution

Valery Alexeev, Philip Engel

There are moduli spaces of K3 surfaces with a nonsymplectic involution. We give detailed descriptions of Kulikov models for one-parameter degenerations in . In the…

math.AG2021★ 5 cited

Compact moduli of K3 surfaces with a nonsymplectic automorphism

Valery Alexeev, Philip Engel, Changho Han

We construct a modular compactification via stable slc pairs for the moduli spaces of K3 surfaces with a nonsymplectic group of automorphisms under the assumption that some combina…

math.AG2021

The flex divisor of a K3 surface

Valery Alexeev, Philip Engel

The flex divisor of a primitively polarized K3 surface of degree is, generically, the locus of all points for which there exists a pencil w…

math.AG2021★ 3 cited

Compact moduli of K3 surfaces

Valery Alexeev, Philip Engel

We construct geometric compactifications of the moduli space of polarized K3 surfaces, in any degree . Our construction is via KSBA theory, by considering canonical ch…

math.AG2020★ 19 cited

Compactifications of moduli of elliptic K3 surfaces: stable pair and toroidal

Valery Alexeev, Adrian Brunyate, Philip Engel

We describe two geometrically meaningful compactifications of the moduli space of elliptic K3 surfaces via stable slc pairs, for two different choices of a polarizing divisor, and…

math.AG2019★ 1 cited

Stable pair compactification of moduli of K3 surfaces of degree 2

Valery Alexeev, Philip Engel, Alan Thompson

We prove that the universal family of polarized K3 surfaces of degree 2 can be extended to a flat family of stable slc pairs over the toroidal compactification associated…

math.AG2018

Hurwitz Theory of Elliptic Orbifolds, II

Philip Engel

An elliptic orbifold is the quotient of an elliptic curve by a finite group. In 2001, Eskin and Okounkov proved that generating functions for the number of branched covers of an el…

math.AG2017★ 10 cited

Hurwitz Theory of Elliptic Orbifolds, I

Philip Engel

An elliptic orbifold is the quotient of an elliptic curve by a finite group. Eskin and Okounkov proved that generating functions for the number of branched covers of an elliptic cu…

math.GT2017★ 15 cited

The number of convex tilings of the sphere by triangles, squares, or hexagons

Philip Engel, Peter Smillie

A tiling of the sphere by triangles, squares, or hexagons is convex if every vertex has at most 6, 4, or 3 polygons adjacent to it, respectively. Assigning an appropriate weight to…

math.AG2016★ 12 cited

Smoothings and Rational Double Point Adjacencies for Cusp Singularities

Philip Engel, Robert Friedman

A cusp singularity is a surface singularity whose minimal resolution is a cycle of smooth rational curves meeting transversely. Cusp singularities come in naturally dual pairs. Loo…

math.AG2014

Looijenga's Conjecture via Integral-affine Geometry

Philip Engel

A cusp singularity is an elliptic surface singularity whose minimal resolution is a cycle of smooth rational curves meeting transversely. Cusp singularities come in naturally dual…