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most citedK3 surfaces, modular forms, and non-geometric heterotic compactifications

57 citations · 359 across the 40 of their papers we have counts for

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42 papers

math.AG2026

Some applications of the moduli space of -polarized K3 surfaces

Adrian Clingher, Andreas Malmendier, Brandon Williams

We study K3 surfaces polarized by the lattice through elliptic fibrations and orthogonal modular forms. Using an alternate genus-one fibration and its relative Ja…

gr-qc2026

Photon spheres, elliptic surfaces, and Seiberg-Witten geometry

Cordell Blankenship, Andreas Malmendier, Michael T. Schultz

We study null geodesics in Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter spacetime and in its Kiselev deformation through the elliptic curves defined by the radial equation. The relation o…

math.AG2026

On the Vinberg Family of K3 Surfaces

Adrian Clingher, Andreas Malmendier, Brandon Williams

We study orthogonal modular forms associated with moduli spaces of lattice-polarized K3 surfaces whose generic transcendental lattices are of the form …

math.AG2025★ 4 cited

Kummer Surfaces, Isogenies and Theta Functions

Adrian Clingher, Andreas Malmendier, Tony Shaska

The paper discusses geometric and computational aspects associated with -isogenies for principally polarized Abelian surfaces and related Kummer surfaces. We start by review…

hep-th2025

Orientifolds for F-theory on K3 Surfaces

Charles Doran, Andreas Malmendier, Stefan Mendez-Diez +1

We study F-theory orientifolds, starting with products of two elliptic curves, but focusing mostly on a family of K3 surfaces, lattice polarized by the rank-17 lattice $\langle 8 \…

math.AG2024

K3 Surfaces and Orthogonal Modular Forms

Adrian Clingher, Andreas Malmendier, Brandon Williams

We determine explicit generators for the ring of modular forms associated with the moduli spaces of K3 surfaces with automorphism group and of Picard r…

math.AG2024

Twists, Eisenstein series, and Instantons in Local Mirror Symmetry

Andreas Malmendier, Michael T. Schultz

We propose a mechanism for computing the genus zero invariants of local Calabi-Yau fourfolds arising as the total space of the canonical bundle of a rank-1 Fano threefold. Our meth…

math.AG2024★ 1 cited

On holomorphic conformal structures associated with lattice polarized K3 surfaces

Andreas Malmendier, Michael T. Schultz

We discuss the connection between Picard-Fuchs equations for certain families of lattice polarized K3 surfaces and the construction of integrable holomorphic conformal structures o…

math.AG2023

On projective K3 surfaces with

Adrian Clingher, Andreas Malmendier, Xavier Roulleau

We prove that every K3 surface with automorphism group admits an explicit birational model as a double sextic surface. This model is canonical for Pica…

math.AG2022★ 1 cited

On two-elementary K3 surfaces with finite automorphism group

Adrian Clingher, Andreas Malmendier, Flora Poon

We study complex algebraic K3 surfaces of Picard ranks 11,12, and 13 of finite automorphism group that admit a Jacobian elliptic fibration with a section of order two. We prove tha…

math.AG2022★ 12 cited

The duality between F-theory and the Heterotic String in with two Wilson lines

Adrian Clingher, Thomas Hill, Andreas Malmendier

We construct non-geometric string compactifications by using the F-theory dual of the heterotic string compactified on a two-torus with two Wilson line parameters, together with a…

math.AG2021★ 2 cited

On the duality of F-theory and the CHL string in seven dimensions

Adrian Clingher, Andreas Malmendier

We show that the duality between F-theory and the CHL string in seven dimensions defines algebraic correspondences between K3 surfaces polarized by the rank-ten lattices $H \oplus…

math.AG2021★ 1 cited

Isogenies of certain K3 surfaces of rank 18

Noah Braeger, Adrian Clingher, Andreas Malmendier +1

We construct geometric isogenies between three types of two-parameter families of K3 surfaces of Picard rank 18. One is the family of Kummer surfaces associated with Jacobians of g…

math.AG2021★ 2 cited

On Néron-Severi lattices of Jacobian elliptic K3 surfaces

Adrian Clingher, Andreas Malmendier

We classify all Jacobian elliptic fibrations on K3 surfaces with finite automorphism group. We also classify all Jacobian elliptic fibrations with finite Mordell-Weil group on K3 s…

math.AG2021★ 4 cited

On the mixed-twist construction and monodromy of associated Picard-Fuchs systems

Andreas Malmendier, Michael T. Schultz

We use the mixed-twist construction of Doran and Malmendier to obtain a multi-parameter family of K3 surfaces of Picard rank . Upon identifying a particular Jacobian ellip…

math.AG2020★ 6 cited

On K3 surfaces of Picard rank 14

Adrian Clingher, Andreas Malmendier

We study complex algebraic K3 surfaces with finite automorphism groups and polarized by rank-fourteen, 2-elementary lattices. Three such lattices exist, namely $H \oplus E_8(-1) \o…

math.AG2020★ 2 cited

Geometry of Prym varieties for special bielliptic curves of genus three and five

Adrian Clingher, Andreas Malmendier, Tony Shaska

We construct two pencils of bielliptic curves of genus three and genus five. The first pencil is associated with a general abelian surface with a polarization of type . The…

math.AG2019★ 8 cited

Kummer sandwiches and Greene-Plesser construction

Noah Braeger, Andreas Malmendier, Yih Sung

In the context of K3 mirror symmetry, the Greene-Plesser orbifolding method constructs a family of K3 surfaces, the mirror of quartic hypersurfaces in , starting from…

math.AG2019

Jacobian elliptic fibrations on the generalized Inose quartic of Picard rank sixteen

Adrian Clingher, Thomas Hill, Andreas Malmendier

We consider the family of complex algebraic K3 surfaces with Picard lattice containing the unimodular lattice . The surface $\mathcal…

physics.flu-dyn2019★ 7 cited

Application of the Biot-Savart Law to Parabolic Vortex Segments using Elliptic Integrals

Andreas Malmendier, Jackson T. Reid

The Biot-Savart law is used in aerodynamic theory to calculate the velocity induced by curved vortex lines. Explicit formulas are developed, using multivariate Appell hypergeometri…

math.DG2019★ 1 cited

From the signature theorem to anomaly cancellation

Andreas Malmendier, Michael T. Schultz

We survey the Hirzebruch signature theorem as a special case of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. The family version of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem in the form of the Riemann-Ro…

math.AG2019★ 24 cited

From hyperelliptic to superelliptic curves

Andreas Malmendier, Tony Shaska

In this long survey article we show that the theory of elliptic and hyperelliptic curves can be extended naturally to all superelliptic curves. We focus on automorphism groups, str…

math.AG2019★ 13 cited

Rational points in the moduli space of genus two

L. Beshaj, R. Hidalgo, S. Kruk +3

We build a database of genus 2 curves defined over which contains all curves with minimal absolute height , all curves with moduli height $\mathfrak h \leq 20…

math.AG2019★ 5 cited

Counting Rational Points on Kummer surfaces

Andreas Malmendier, Yih Sung

We consider the problem of counting the number of rational points on the family of Kummer surfaces associated with two non-isogenous elliptic curves. For this two-parameter family…