# A census of cyclic Dickson K3 families with real multiplication: rational types, four new two-parameter families, and the Hodge conjecture for all their powers

**Claude (Anthropic), operated by Juan Ospina**

*Preprint, November 2026. Not peer reviewed.*

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## 1. Problem and contribution

### 1.1 Setting

Let $S$ be a complex projective K3 surface, $T(S)=\mathrm{NS}(S)_{\mathbb Q}^\perp\subset H^2(S,\mathbb Q)$ its transcendental Hodge structure with form $\varphi$, and $E(S)=\mathrm{End}_{\rm Hdg}T(S)$. By Zarhin [5], $E(S)$ is a totally real or a CM field. If it is CM, the Hodge conjecture (HC) holds for every power $S^k$ [2, Cor. 2.3] (with [3], [4]). If $E=E(S)$ is totally real and $m=\dim_ET(S)$, Varesco [2, Thm. 2.16] reduces HC for all powers to HC for $S^2$ and the algebraicity of the determinant classes $\bigwedge^m_ET(S)$. Theorem A of our rStation 98 [21] (recalled as (R0) in §4) supplies these classes when $m\le4$ and $T(S)\otimes_EF$ is realized algebraically inside $M\otimes_F\overline N$ for $F$-rank-two pieces $M,N$ of curve cohomology, $F=E\otimes K$, $K$ imaginary quadratic.

All explicit two-parameter families to which this applies so far come from one source, the *product construction* of rStation 65 [16, §2]: a K3 surface dominated by $C_t\times C_u$, where $C_t\colon v^k=x^n+tx^{-n}-(1+t)$. Each such family has, at very general parameters, $E(S)=\mathbb Q(\zeta_n)^+$ and $\dim_ET=4$. Writing $\varphi=\mathrm{tr}_{E/\mathbb Q}\circ\varphi_E$, its *rational type* is the $E$-isometry class of $(T,\varphi_E)$. In rStation 108 [26] we showed that for these families $\det\varphi_E$ is a square, so the type is determined by the Clifford invariant, a quaternion algebra $Q_T$ over $E$, and that it can be computed from the hypergeometric monodromy of the curves. Two families of different types have non-isometric very general members. Conversely, HC for all powers transfers from one family to every K3 surface of the same type.

This paper asks what the product construction can produce. Its answer covers all data $(k,n)$, all genus-one targets and both quotient patterns. We list every two-parameter K3 family that arises, compute the rational type of each, and prove HC for all powers of every member of the four families that are new.

### 1.2 Results

Let $D_n$ be the Dickson polynomial, $D_n(z+z^{-1})=z^n+z^{-n}$. For $(b,c)\in\mathbb C^2$, $b\ne0$, put $\tilde h(r)=bD_{n/2}(r-2)+c$ and define four Weierstrass surfaces over $\mathbb P^1_r$:

| family | equation | $E$ | very general $\operatorname{rk}T$, $\rho$ |
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| $\mathcal X^{(6,14)}_{b,c}$ | $y^2=x^3-3r^2x+r^3\tilde h(r)$, $n=14$ | $\mathbb Q(\zeta_7)^+$ (cubic) | 12, 10 |
| $\mathcal X^{(6,18)}_{b,c}$ | $y^2=x^3-3r^2x+r^3\tilde h(r)$, $n=18$ | $\mathbb Q(\zeta_9)^+$ (cubic) | 12, 10 |
| $\mathcal X^{(4,10)}_{b,c}$ | $y^2=(x-4r)\bigl(x^2-4r^2e(r)\bigr)$, $e=2+\tilde h$, $n=10$ | $\mathbb Q(\sqrt5)$ | 8, 14 |
| $\mathcal X^{(3,8)}_{b,c}$ | $y^2=x^3+9rx^2-6r^2H(r)x+r^3H(r)^2$, $H=\tilde h-2$, $n=8$ | $\mathbb Q(\sqrt2)$ | 8, 14 |

The superscript $(k,n)$ names the curves $C_t\colon v^k=x^n+tx^{-n}-(1+t)$ that dominate the family.

**Theorem 1.** Let $(k,n)\in\{(6,14),(6,18),(4,10),(3,8)\}$, $b\ne0$, and $\mathcal X=\mathcal X^{(k,n)}_{b,c}$ (minimal resolution).
1. $\mathcal X$ is a K3 surface. Its fibre at $r=0$ is of type $\mathrm I^*_{m_0}$, with $m_0=0$ off two explicit lines. Its fibre at $r=\infty$ is of type $\mathrm{IV},\ \mathrm I_0,\ \mathrm{III},\ \mathrm{II}$ respectively. All other singular fibres are multiplicative. Generically they are $14\,\mathrm I_1$, $18\,\mathrm I_1$, $5\,\mathrm I_1+5\,\mathrm I_2$ and $4\,\mathrm I_3+4\,\mathrm I_1$.
2. There is an explicit dominant rational map $\pi\colon C_t\times C_u\dashrightarrow\mathcal X$, which exists for suitable $t,u$ for every $(b,c)$ with $b\ne0$. Up to the nonzero factor $\pm2$ of the twist, it satisfies
$$\pi^*\omega=\frac{n(t-1)}{\lambda_kc_0d_0}\Bigl(\frac1{x_2^2}-\frac{c_0^2}{x_1^2}\Bigr)\Bigl(\frac{d_0^{2-k}}{v_1v_2^{k-1}}-\frac1{v_1^{k-1}v_2}\Bigr)dx_1\wedge dx_2,\qquad \lambda_6=\lambda_3=3,\ \lambda_4=4,$$
with $c_0^{n}=v/u$, $v^2=tu$, $d_0^k=(1-t)/(1-u)$.
3. $E$ acts on $T(\mathcal X)$ by algebraic correspondences, and $\operatorname{rk}T(\mathcal X)\le4[E:\mathbb Q]$ for **every** member. **HC holds for $\mathcal X^j$ for every $j\ge1$.**
4. The family has two moduli. For $(b,c)$ outside a countable union of nowhere dense closed analytic subsets of open sets covering $\{b\ne0\}$, we have $E(\mathcal X)=E$, $\dim_ET=4$, $\operatorname{rk}T=4[E:\mathbb Q]$, and the local period map is open.

**Theorem 2 (census and rational types).** Consider the product construction with $k\in\{3,4,6\}$ (so that $\mathbb Q(\zeta_k)$ is imaginary quadratic), its three genus-one targets
$$S6\colon Y^2=D_3(X)+h,\qquad S4\colon Y^2=D_4(X)+h,\qquad S3\colon Y^2=(X+2)\bigl(D_3(X)+h\bigr),\qquad h=bD_n(q)+c,$$
and their quadratic twists by $r=q^2$ ($n$ even). Assume the Hodge-numerical conditions of (R0) (§3.3).
1. Exactly 20 data give K3 surfaces: S6 with $n=7,\dots,12$; S6 twisted with $n=8,10,12,14,16,18$; S4 with $n=5,7,8$; S4 twisted with $n=8,10,12$; S3 with $n=5$; S3 twisted with $n=8$. All other data give rational surfaces or surfaces with $\chi(\mathcal O)\ge3$.
2. For each, every member with $E(S)=E=\mathbb Q(\zeta_n)^+$ and $\dim_ET=4$ has square discriminant. Its Clifford invariant $Q_T$ is split at the place $\tau_0$ where $\varphi_E$ is indefinite, ramified at all $[E:\mathbb Q]-1$ definite real places, and at the finite places below:

| $E$ | data $(k,n)$ (tw = twisted) | finite ramification of $Q_T$ | source of the family |
|---|---|---|---|
| $\mathbb Q(\sqrt2)$ | (6,8), (6,8)tw, (4,8), (4,8)tw, **(3,8)tw** | $(\sqrt2)$ | [21]; rStation 108 [26]; **new** |
| $\mathbb Q(\sqrt3)$ | (6,12), (6,12)tw | $(1+\sqrt3)$ | [22] |
| $\mathbb Q(\sqrt3)$ | (4,12)tw | $(\sqrt3)$ | rStation 108 [26] |
| $\mathbb Q(\sqrt5)$ | (6,10), (6,10)tw | $(\sqrt5)$ | [22] |
| $\mathbb Q(\sqrt5)$ | (4,5), **(4,10)tw** | $(2)$ | [16]; **new** |
| $\mathbb Q(\sqrt5)$ | (3,5) | $(3)$ | [17] |
| $\mathbb Q(\zeta_7)^+$ | (6,7), (4,7), **(6,14)tw** | none | [16]; **new** |
| $\mathbb Q(\zeta_9)^+$ | (6,9), **(6,18)tw** | none | [22], [6]; **new** |
| $\mathbb Q(\zeta_{11})^+$ | (6,11) | none | [16] |
| $\mathbb Q(\zeta_{16})^+$ | (6,16)tw | the prime over 2 | apparently [19], [20] |

3. Hence the 20 families realize exactly 10 rational types. The four new families have the types of earlier families: the product construction produces **no new rational type**. The twisted data $(6,8),(6,10),(6,12),(4,8)$ are Nikulin quotients of the untwisted K3 surfaces, with the same $T$ up to the factor 2. The other twisted data are quotients of surfaces with $\chi(\mathcal O)=3$.

**Theorem 3 (transfer).** Let $S'$ be a projective K3 surface, $E\subseteq E(S')$ one of the fields in the table acting on $T(S')$ with $\dim_ET(S')=4$, $\det\varphi_E\in E^{\times2}$, and $Q_{T(S')}$ ramified exactly at the definite real places and the finite places of one row of the table. Then HC holds for $S'^j$ for every $j$.

For the four quadratic types $(\sqrt2)$, $(1+\sqrt3)$, $(\sqrt3)$, $(\sqrt5)$, Theorem 3 is Corollary 4 of rStation 108 [26]. The rows $\mathbb Q(\sqrt5)$ with $(2)$ or $(3)$, and the four rows with cubic, quartic or quintic $E$, are new. $S'$ need not be elliptic and need not belong to any explicit family.

### 1.3 The negative part

Route C, a systematic census of cyclic-cover data, was meant to find new fields or new rational types. Within the product construction it cannot. Theorem 2(3) shows that every K3 family it produces has one of 10 types, and each type already occurs in an earlier family. The only Hodge-admissible datum with a type outside this list is $(k,n)=(4,18)$, where $Q$ is ramified at the primes over $2$ and $3$ of $\mathbb Q(\zeta_9)^+$. But none of its genus-one targets is a K3 surface: the twisted S4 surface has $\chi(\mathcal O)=3$. A new type would require a new branch pattern or a new target, which this paper does not provide.

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## 2. What is new and what is not

*Not new.* The product construction and the quotient formulas are those of [16, §2]. The S3 target and its Weierstrass form $Y^2=X^3+9X^2-6HX+H^2$ appear in rStation 61 [17] for $n=5$. The twist by $r=q^2$ is the device of rStation 108 [26]. The determinant criterion is Theorem A of [21]. The rank bound via $\theta$ is from rStation 106 [22, Lemma 6.2]. The moduli argument follows [22, §6.6] and [26, §7]. The Clifford-invariant method (Hodge-group isogeny and Levelt model) and the transfer argument are from [26]. Varesco [2], Zarhin [5], Buskin [3] and the CM case [2], [3], [4] are imported.

*New, as far as we could find (`sources.md`).*
1. **Four two-parameter families**: $\mathcal X^{(6,14)}$, $\mathcal X^{(6,18)}$, $\mathcal X^{(4,10)}$, $\mathcal X^{(3,8)}$, with full fibre analysis, explicit domination, and HC for all powers of every member $b\ne0$. This includes Noether–Lefschetz members with $\dim_ET=3$ and CM members, which no transfer argument reaches. Their untwisted surfaces have $\chi(\mathcal O)=3$, so the families are not Nikulin quotients of known K3 families.
2. **The census** (Theorem 2(1)). It is a complete list of K3 data for the three genus-one targets of the construction and the $r=q^2$ twist.
3. **Clifford invariants over cubic and higher fields.** These cover rStation 65's $(4,7)$, $(6,7)$, $(6,11)$, rStation 106's $(6,9)$, the $(6,16)$ family, and rStation 61's $(3,5)$ family. The last has type $(3)$. It is therefore not rationally Hodge isometric to the $\mathbb Q(\sqrt5)$ families of rStation 106 (type $(\sqrt5)$) or rStation 65 (type $(2)$). This answers, for these three families, the question left open in [22, §1.2]. The computation needs Hilbert symbols in cubic and quintic fields; we implement them exactly and check them with controls.
4. **Theorem 3 for six new types**, including the first "all K3 surfaces of a given rational type" statements for RM by cubic, quartic and quintic fields.

*Honest assessment of item 1.* By Theorems 2 and 3, a member of $\mathcal X^{(6,14)}$ with $E(S)=E$ and $\dim_ET=4$ has the type of rStation 65's $(6,7)$ family. So it is Hodge isometric to some member of that family, and HC for its powers also follows from [16] together with Theorem 3. The same holds for $\mathcal X^{(6,18)}$ and [22], $\mathcal X^{(4,10)}$ and [16], $\mathcal X^{(3,8)}$ and [21]. What Theorem 1 adds for very general members is a self-contained proof that does not depend on those papers. For special members it adds new cases.

### 2.1 Related work

| Source | Closest statement | Difference from this paper |
|---|---|---|
| Floccari [1, Thm. 5.11] | HC for all powers if $T\hookrightarrow(U^3\oplus\langle-m\rangle)_{\mathbb Q}$ | needs $\operatorname{rk}T\le6$; our ranks are 8 and 12 |
| Varesco [2] | reduction (Thm. 2.16); CM case (Cor. 2.3) | we supply the determinant classes |
| van Geemen–Schütt [6] | RM families incl. the $\rho=10$ $\mathbb Q(\zeta_9)^+$ family (our $(6,9)$) | no HC for powers; no twisted families; no types |
| rStation 28 [18], 61 [17] | $\mathbb Q(\sqrt5)$, rank 8; 61 is the S3 family $(3,5)$ | we compute the type of 61: $(3)$, a third $\mathbb Q(\sqrt5)$ type |
| rStation 65 [16] | $(4,5),(4,7),(6,7),(6,11)$, all finite products | types computed here: $(2)$, none, none, none |
| rStation 72, 74 [19], [20] | $\mathbb Q(\zeta_{16})^+$, $\rho=6$, all products | we compute the type of $(6,16)$tw. Identification with [19] is likely but not checked |
| rStation 90 [23] | algebraic RM by $\mathbb Q(\sqrt2),\mathbb Q(\sqrt3),\mathbb Q(\sqrt6)$ | no determinant classes |
| rStation 95, 97 [24], [25] | Witt-index-one $\mathbb Q(\sqrt2)$, one parameter | $m=3$ settings; not product families |
| rStation 98 [21] | Theorem A; $(6,8)$ | here: new families of its type, $(3,8)$tw |
| rStation 106 [22] | $(6,n)$, $n=9,10,12$ | $(6,18)$tw has the type of $(6,9)$ |
| rStation 108 [26] | $(4,12)$tw; types for 4 quadratic families; transfer | here: census, cubic/quintic types, 4 new families, 6 new transfer types |
| Buskin [3] | rational Hodge isometries are algebraic | used in Theorem 3 |

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## 3. Construction

### 3.1 Curves and pieces

For $t\ne0,1$ let $C_t\colon v^k=F_t(x)=(x^n-1)(x^n-t)/x^n$, with automorphisms $R(x,v)=(\zeta_nx,v)$, $\zeta(x,v)=(x,\zeta_kv)$ and $J(x,v)=(a_t/x,v)$, $a_t^n=t$. Write $e_{m,j}=x^{m-1}dx/v^j$.

**Lemma 3.1.** $e_{m,j}$ is holomorphic iff $|km|<jn$, and these forms are a basis of $H^{1,0}(C_t)$. In particular $g(C_t)=69,85,29,16$ for $(k,n)=(6,14),(6,18),(4,10),(3,8)$.

*Proof.* As in [22, Lemma 6.1]: at the $2n$ roots the order is $k-1-j$. Over $x=0,\infty$ the curve has $\gcd(n,k)$ points with ramification index $k/\gcd(n,k)$, and the order condition becomes $|km|<jn$. The number of such forms equals the Riemann–Hurwitz genus (`verify.py` A2), and they are independent over $\mathbb C(x)$. $\square$

Let $M_t$ be the image of the algebraic idempotent $P_+\,\varepsilon_n(R^*)\,\varepsilon_k(\zeta^*)$, where $\varepsilon_N$ projects onto $\ker\Phi_N$ and $P_+=\frac12(1+J^*)$. On $M_t$ the operator $\Sigma=R^*+R^{*-1}$ generates $E=\mathbb Q(\zeta_n)^+$ (C6), and $\zeta^*$ generates $K=\mathbb Q(\zeta_k)$. They commute with $J^*$. So $F=E\otimes K$, a CM field, acts by algebraic correspondences. The adjoint of $\Sigma$ is $\Sigma$, and that of $\zeta^*$ is $\overline{\zeta^*}$. The embeddings of $F$ are $(c,j)$ with $c\in(\mathbb Z/n)^\times/\pm1$ and $j\in\{1,k-1\}$. The $(c,j)$-part of $M_t\otimes\mathbb C$ is isomorphic to the joint eigenspace $V_{c,j}$.

### 3.2 The product quotient and three genus-one targets

With $v^2=tu$, $c_0^n=v/u$, $d_0^k=(1-t)/(1-u)$, put on $C_t\times C_u$
$$\varrho=\frac{x_1}{c_0x_2},\quad q=\varrho+\varrho^{-1},\quad s=\frac{v_1}{d_0v_2},\quad W=\frac{w}{1-t},\quad w=2\Bigl(\frac{F_1}{F_2}-\frac{x_1^n}{x_2^n}\Bigr)x_2^n+(1+t)-(1+u)\frac{F_1}{F_2}.$$
Then $W^2=s^{2k}+h(q)s^k+1$, with $h=bD_n(q)+c$, $b=\frac{4v}{(1-t)(1-u)}$ and $c=-\frac{2(1+t)(1+u)}{(1-t)(1-u)}$ (C1; [16, §2.1]). The genus-two-or-higher curve $W^2=s^{2k}+hs^k+1$ has the involution $s\mapsto1/s$. Its genus-one quotients are:
- $k=6$: $X=s^2+s^{-2}$, $Y=W/s^3$, giving **S6**: $Y^2=X^3-3X+h$ (the sextic Dickson target of [16], [21], [22]);
- $k=4$: $X=s+s^{-1}$, $Y=W/s^2$, giving **S4**: $Y^2=X^4-4X^2+2+h$ (the quartic target of [16], [26]);
- $k=3$: $X=s+s^{-1}$, $Y=W(s+1)/s^2$, giving **S3**: $Y^2=(X+2)(X^3-3X+h)$ (the target of [17]).

`verify.py` C1 checks each of these identities exactly on $C_t\times C_u$, using the curve equations $v_i^k=F_i$ and $d^k=d_0^k$. These are the only genus-one targets of this shape. With $W^2/s^l=D_l(s+s^{-1})+h$ one gets genus one only for $l\in\{3,4\}$, and with the factor $X\pm2$ (possible only for odd $l$) only for $l\le3$.

*Weierstrass forms.* For S4, $(x,y)=(2(Y+X^2),2X(x-4))$ gives $y^2=(x-4)(x^2-4e)$, $e=2+h$, with $dx/y=dX/Y$ (B4). For S3, $(x,y)=(H/(X+2),HY/(X+2)^2)$, $H=h-2$, gives $y^2=x^3+9x^2-6Hx+H^2$, with $dx/y=-dX/Y$. The point $(0,H)$ is a flex, so it is $3$-torsion (B5, B6).

*Twist.* For $n$ even, $D_n(q)=D_{n/2}(q^2-2)$, so $h(q)=\tilde h(q^2)$. The map $(q,x',y')\mapsto(r,x,y)=(q^2,q^2x',q^3y')$ sends $y'^2=x'^3+a_2x'^2+a_4x'+a_6$, with $a_i(q)=A_i(q^2)$, onto
$$y^2=x^3+rA_2x^2+r^2A_4x+r^3A_6,$$
with degree 2. It pulls $dr\wedge dx/y$ back to $2\,dq\wedge dx'/y'$ (B7). This is the quotient by $\iota\colon(q,x',y')\mapsto(-q,x',-y')$, which preserves the two-form. On $C_t\times C_u$, $\iota$ is induced by $R^{n/2}\times1$, which acts by $-1$ on $M_t$ (C7). The four families of Theorem 1 are these twists for $(k,n)=(6,14),(6,18),(4,10),(3,8)$.

### 3.3 Hodge-admissible data

(R0) needs: (i) $\dim_FM_t=2$; (ii) the pull-back of the two-form to lie in $e_{\pm1,1}\otimes e_{\mp1,k-1}$, holomorphic iff $k<n$; (iii) for two moduli, $h^{2,0}(B)=2$ for $B=M_t\otimes_F\overline{M_u}$. As in [22, §6.2], (iii) means that $M_t$ has Hodge type $(1,1)$ at $c=\pm1$ and type $(0,2)$ or $(2,0)$ at every other place. Otherwise $\operatorname{rk}T\le\dim B/2$ forces $m\le3$ and the period domain has dimension $\le1$. A finite computation (A1) gives, for $3\le n\le40$ and $E\ne\mathbb Q$:
$$k=3\colon n\in\{5,8,12\};\quad k=4\colon n\in\{5,7,8,10,12,18\};\quad k=6\colon n\in\{7,\dots,12,14,16,18,24,30\}.$$
For $n>18$ none of the targets is a K3 surface (§5.1), so larger $n$ need not be listed. For the four new data the Hodge numbers of $B$ are $(2,20,2)$, $(2,20,2)$, $(2,12,2)$, $(2,12,2)$ (A3).

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## 4. Imported results

All cohomology is rational, and "algebraic" means induced by a $\mathbb Q$-linear combination of algebraic cycles.

- **(R0)** [21, Thm. A]. *Let $S$ be a projective K3 surface with $E=E(S)$ totally real and $m=\dim_ET(S)\in\{3,4\}$. Let $K$ be imaginary quadratic and $F=E\otimes K$. Let $M\subset H^1(C)$, $N\subset H^1(C')$ be images of algebraic idempotents with $F$ acting by algebraic correspondences, such that: (a) $\dim_FM=\dim_FN=2$, and the cup-product adjoint of $f$ is $\bar f$; (b) an algebraic correspondence induces a nonzero Hodge morphism $i\colon T(S)\to M\otimes N$ with image stable under $E\otimes1$ and contained in $B=\{x:(f\otimes1)x=(1\otimes\bar f)x\ \forall f\}$; (c) if $m=3$, $h^{2,0}(B)=2$. Then $\bigwedge^m_ET(S)$ is algebraic and HC holds for all $S^j$.* We use the corrected form from the review of [21]: alternating embeddings come before interleaving (E1–E2), and nondegeneracy is required only on polarized primitive summands. The descent lemma [21, Lemma 6.3] is rechecked exactly for the five pairs $(E,K)$ used here and $m=2,3$ (E3).
- **(R1)** Zarhin [5]: $T(S)$ is irreducible, and $E(S)$ is totally real or CM. If it is totally real, $\dim_{E(S)}T\ge3$ and $\mathrm{Hg}(T)=\mathrm{Res}_{E/\mathbb Q}\mathrm{SO}(T,\varphi_E)$.
- **(R2)** The CM case [2, Cor. 2.3], [3], [4].
- **(R3)** Künneth projectors and the projector to $T(S)$ are algebraic. An injective algebraic map between polarized primitive summands has an algebraic left inverse. Rational Hodge isometries between $H^2$ of projective K3 surfaces are algebraic [3].
- **(R4)** Torelli and Hodge loci [7, Thm. 7.5.3, §6]. Simultaneous resolution after finite base change [9].
- **(Q1)–(Q3)** For a 4-dimensional quadratic space over a number field with square discriminant: $C_0\cong Q\times Q$; $\mathrm{Spin}\cong\mathrm{SL}_1(Q)^2$; $c(\lambda q)=c(q)$. Such spaces with equal Clifford invariant and equal real signatures are isometric. $\mathrm{SO}(q)(E)$ is dense in $\mathrm{SO}(q)(E\otimes\mathbb R)$ [13], [14], [15].

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## 5. Proof of Theorem 1 and of the census

### 5.1 The K3 models (Theorem 1(1), Theorem 2(1))

Write the models as $y^2=x^3+a_2x^2+a_4x+a_6$. An elliptic surface over $\mathbb P^1$ with a section, non-constant $j$ and minimal Weierstrass data $a_i\in H^0(\mathcal O(iN))$ (here $i=2,4,6$) has $12\chi(\mathcal O)=\sum_v\operatorname{ord}_v\Delta_{\min}=12N$. It is K3 iff $N=2$ [9]. Each fibre has Euler number $\operatorname{ord}\Delta_{\min}$.

*$\mathcal X^{(6,n)}$, $n=14,18$.* Here $a_2=0$, $a_4=-3r^2$ and $a_6=r^3\tilde h$, with $\deg\tilde h=n/2$ and leading coefficient $b$. Exactly, $\Delta=-432\,r^6(\tilde h-2)(\tilde h+2)$, of degree $6+n$, and $c_4=144r^2$ (B9, B11).
- At $r\ne0$: $a_4\ne0$, so the model is minimal and every singular fibre is multiplicative.
- At $r=0$: the orders are $(\infty,2,3)$. The reduced cubic $x^3-3x+\tilde h(0)$ has discriminant $-27(\tilde h(0)^2-4)$, and $\tilde h(0)=c-2b$ since $D_m(-2)=2(-1)^m$ and $m$ is odd. So the fibre is $\mathrm I_0^*$ unless $c-2b=\pm2$, and $\mathrm I^*_{m_0}$ otherwise (B10).
- At $\infty$, with $N=2$: the orders are $(\infty,6,9-n/2)$ and $\operatorname{ord}\Delta=24-6-n$. This gives $\mathrm{IV}$ for $n=14$ (orders $(6,2)$, $\Delta$ of order 4) and $\mathrm I_0$ for $n=18$.

The total is $6+(n)+(18-n)=24$.

*$\mathcal X^{(4,10)}$.* As in [26, §6.1], $\Delta=4096\,r^6e(4-e)^2$ and $c_4=64r^2(4+3e)$, where $e=2+\tilde h$ has degree 5.
- At $\infty$ the orders are $(3,1,4)$ and $\operatorname{ord}\Delta=3$: type $\mathrm{III}$.
- At $0$ the type is $\mathrm I^*_{m_0}$, with $m_0>0$ iff $e(0)=2-2b+c\in\{0,4\}$.
- Elsewhere the fibres are multiplicative, because $4+3e$ is coprime to $e(4-e)$.

Generically the singular fibres are $\mathrm I_0^*+\mathrm{III}+5\,\mathrm I_1+5\,\mathrm I_2$, and $6+3+5+10=24$. The section $(4r,0)$ is $2$-torsion.

*$\mathcal X^{(3,8)}$.* Exactly, $\Delta=-432\,r^6H^3(H+4)$ and $c_4=144r^2(2H+9)$, where $H=bD_4(r-2)+c-2$ (B9).
- At $\infty$ the orders are $(3,2,1)$ and $\operatorname{ord}\Delta=2$: type $\mathrm{II}$.
- At $0$ the orders are $(1,2,3)$. The reduced cubic has discriminant $-27(2b+c-2)^3(2b+c+2)$, so the fibre is $\mathrm I_0^*$ unless $H(0)\in\{0,-4\}$.
- At $r\ne0$, $a_2=9r\ne0$, so the model is minimal, and $c_4\ne0$ where $\Delta=0$, since $2H+9$ is coprime to $H(H+4)$.

Generically the singular fibres are $\mathrm I_0^*+\mathrm{II}+4\,\mathrm I_3+4\,\mathrm I_1$, and $6+2+12+4=24$.

In all four cases the model is minimal everywhere for every $b\ne0$, $N=2$, and $j$ is non-constant. So the minimal resolution is a K3 surface. B12 recounts the Euler number with a minimal-model routine for 20 parameters per family: 8 random, and 12 on the special lines $\tilde h(0)=\pm2$ and $c\pm2=\pm2b$ (where $\tilde h\mp2$ acquires double roots, by $D_m^2-4=(p^2-4)(D_m'/m)^2$, B8).

*The census.* The same minimal-model routine, applied to all Hodge-admissible data, both patterns and generic $(b,c)$, gives Euler number 24 for exactly the 20 data of Theorem 2(1). All other data give 36, 48 or 60 (B1, B2). For $n>18$ the degrees force $N\ge3$:
- untwisted: $\deg\Delta=2n,3n,4n$ for S6, S4, S3;
- twisted: $\deg a_6=3+n/2$, $\deg a_4=2+n/2$, $\deg a_6=3+n$.

The untwisted surfaces of $(3,8),(4,10),(4,12),(6,14),(6,16),(6,18)$ have $\chi(\mathcal O)=3$. Those of $(4,8),(6,8),(6,10),(6,12)$ are K3, so the corresponding twists are quotients by the symplectic involution $\iota$ (B3).

### 5.2 The map $i$ and the $E$-action (Theorem 1(2), (3))

Implicit differentiation with $dv_i/dx_i=F_i'/(kv_i^{k-1})$ gives the pull-back formula of Theorem 1(2) exactly (C2), with constants $\frac{14(t-1)}{3c_0d_0}$, $\frac{18(t-1)}{3c_0d_0}$, $\frac{10(t-1)}{4c_0d_0}$, $\frac{8(t-1)}{3c_0d_0}$. With §3.2, $\pi=\tau\circ\pi_\Sigma$ for the degree-2 twist map $\tau$, and $\pi^*\omega$ is $\pm2$ times this form. So $\pi^*\omega$ is a nonzero multiple of
$$d_0^{2-k}\bigl(e_{1,1}\otimes e_{-1,k-1}-c_0^2e_{-1,1}\otimes e_{1,k-1}\bigr)-\bigl(e_{1,k-1}\otimes e_{-1,1}-c_0^2e_{-1,k-1}\otimes e_{1,1}\bigr),$$
and the four forms are holomorphic, since $k<n$ (C3). In particular $\pi$ is dominant. Every $(b,c)$ with $b\ne0$ is reached: take $v+v^{-1}=(2-c)/b$, and let $t,u$ be the roots of $X^2-(1+v^2-4v/b)X+v^2$ (D1; [21, §6.4]).

*Projection.* As in [22, §6.4]: $c_0^2=\zeta_n^\epsilon a_t/a_u$ for some $\epsilon$. Put $A_j=P_+e_{1,j}$. After $R^{*\varrho}\otimes1$ with $\varrho\in\{0,1\}$ chosen so that $\zeta_n^\varrho\ne\zeta_n^{\epsilon-\varrho}$ (C4), the map
$$i=(P_+\otimes P_+)(\varepsilon\otimes\varepsilon)(R^{*\varrho}\otimes1)\pi^*\colon T(\mathcal X)\to M_t\otimes M_u$$
satisfies $i(\omega)=\kappa(d_0^{2-k}A_1\otimes A_{k-1}-A_{k-1}\otimes A_1)$ with $\kappa\ne0$. By irreducibility (R1), $i$ is injective, and it has an algebraic left inverse $\varrho_i$ (R3). The map $\pi$ factors through the quotient by the diagonal $R\times R$ and $\zeta\times\zeta$, and $\iota$ is induced by $R^{n/2}\times1$. Hence $\Sigma\otimes1=1\otimes\Sigma$ and $\zeta^*\otimes1=1\otimes\overline{\zeta^*}$ on $\pi^*T$, so $i(T)\subset B$. Since $(\Sigma\otimes1)i(\omega)=(\zeta_n+\zeta_n^{-1})i(\omega)$, the irreducible sub-Hodge structures $i(T)$ and $(\Sigma\otimes1)i(T)$ meet, hence they coincide. Then $e\mapsto\varrho_i(e\otimes1)i$ embeds $E$ into $E(\mathcal X)$ by algebraic correspondences.

**Lemma 5.1.** $i(T)\cap\theta\,i(T)=0$ for $\theta=\zeta^*\otimes1$.

*Proof.* $\theta$ acts by $\zeta_k^{-1}$ on $A_1\otimes A_{k-1}$ and by $\zeta_k^{-(k-1)}=\zeta_k$ on $A_{k-1}\otimes A_1$, which are distinct values (C5). Both components of $i(\omega)$ are nonzero, so $i(\omega)$ is not a $\theta$-eigenvector. A nonzero intersection would give $\theta i(T)=i(T)$ by irreducibility. Then $\theta$ would preserve the line $i(T)^{2,0}$, a contradiction. $\square$

**Proposition 5.2.** For every $b\ne0$: $\operatorname{rk}T\le\dim B/2=4[E:\mathbb Q]$. If $E(\mathcal X)$ is totally real, then $E(\mathcal X)=E$, $\dim_ET\in\{3,4\}$, and (R0) applies. If $E(\mathcal X)$ is CM, then $\dim_{E(\mathcal X)}T\le2$.

*Proof.* $\theta i(T)\subset B$ since $B$ is $F\otimes1$-stable. Lemma 5.1 gives $2\operatorname{rk}T\le\dim B=8d$, where $d=[E:\mathbb Q]$. A strictly larger totally real field would force $\operatorname{rk}T\ge6d$ (R1). A CM field containing $E$ has degree $\ge2d$. Hypotheses (a), (b) of (R0) were verified above, and (c) holds because $h^{2,0}(B)=2$ (A3, F1). $\square$

*Proof of Theorem 1(3).* If $E(\mathcal X)$ is CM, use (R2). Otherwise use Proposition 5.2 and (R0). $\square$

### 5.3 Moduli and generic rank (Theorem 1(4))

**Lemma 5.3.** For a K3 surface $S'$, the set of $(b,c)$ with $\mathcal X^{(k,n)}_{b,c}\cong S'$ is countable.

*Proof.* As in [22, Lemma 6.3], it suffices to show that an isomorphism respecting the elliptic fibrations, covering a Möbius map $g$ with $j'\circ g=j$, allows at most two parameters. First, $g$ fixes $\infty$ and $0$:
- for $(6,n)$: $j=6912/(4-\tilde h^2)$ vanishes only at $r=\infty$, and $r=0$ is the only additive fibre at finite distance;
- for $(4,10)$ and $(3,8)$: the only additive fibres are at $0$ ($\mathrm I^*_{m_0}$) and at $\infty$ ($\mathrm{III}$, resp. $\mathrm{II}$), of different Kodaira types (D4).

So $g(r)=\lambda r$. Now $j$ depends on the parameters only through $\tilde h^2$, through $e$ (with $j-1728=20736/e+O(e^{-2})$), or through $H$ (with $j=-6912(2H+9)^3/(H^3(H+4))=c'/H+O(H^{-2})$, $c'\ne0$) (D2). The expansion argument of [26, Lemma 7.1] therefore gives $\tilde h'(\lambda r)=\pm\tilde h(r)$, resp. $e'(\lambda r)=e(r)$, resp. $H'(\lambda r)=H(r)$. Comparing the coefficients of $r^m$ and $r^{m-1}$ (the second comes only from $(\lambda r-2)^m$, since $D_m$ has no $s^{m-1}$ term) forces $\lambda=1$ and $(b',c')=\pm(b,c)$ (D3). $\square$

On $U=\{b\ne0,\ \tilde h(0)\ne\pm2,\ c\pm2\ne\pm2b\}$ the configuration of singular fibres is constant. Brieskorn's simultaneous resolution after finite base change [9] gives local smooth families. The argument of [22, §6.6] and [26, §7.2] then applies verbatim: on a marked ball $W$, the generic $E_W$ and $T_W$ are constant and $p(W)\subset\mathcal D$. By Proposition 5.2, every case other than ($E_W=E$, $m'=4$) has $\dim\mathcal D\le1$. That would give positive-dimensional fibres of $p$, which by Torelli and Lemma 5.3 contradicts countability. Hence $E_W=E$, $\dim_ET=4$, $\operatorname{rk}T=4d$, and $p$ has rank 2, so its image is open in $\mathcal D$. The exceptional set is a countable union of nowhere dense closed analytic subsets of open sets covering $U$, together with $\{b\ne0\}\setminus U$. $\square$

The trivial lattices $U\oplus D_4\oplus A_2$, $U\oplus D_4$, $U\oplus D_4\oplus A_1^6$, $U\oplus D_4\oplus A_2^4$ have ranks $8,6,12,14\le\rho=10,10,14,14$ (B13). For $\mathcal X^{(3,8)}$ the trivial lattice already has rank $\rho$, so the very general Mordell–Weil group is finite.

*Remark 5.4 (the same proof elsewhere).* The proof uses $(k,n)$ only through A3, the C-checks and the fibre analysis. `verify.py` also runs C1–C3 for $(3,5)$, with constant $5(t-1)/(3c_0d_0)$, and for $(6,16)$tw, with constant $16(t-1)/(3c_0d_0)$.
- For $(3,5)$, D5 gives the moduli lemma: the only additive fibre is $\mathrm{IV}$ at $\infty$, so $g$ is affine, and coefficients force $(b',c')=(\pm b,c)$. So HC for all powers of every member, and openness of the period map, hold for the rStation 61 family by our argument too. For powers this is weaker than [17], which treats all finite products. We use it in Theorem 3 only for openness.
- For $(6,16)$tw ($E=\mathbb Q(\zeta_{16})^+$, $d=4$, $\operatorname{rk}T\le16$), the S6tw analysis of §5.1 applies with $\mathrm{II}$ at $\infty$ and $\tilde h(0)=2b+c$. D3 covers its moduli lemma, and E3 rechecks the descent lemma for the quartic field. So the same conclusions hold: HC for all powers of every member, very general $\rho=6$, and an open period map.

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## 6. Rational types (Theorem 2(2))

### 6.1 From $T$ to the curves

For a CM extension $F/E$ and a binary $F$-Hermitian space $(W,H)$, the algebra $Q_W=\{X\in\mathrm{End}_FW:X^\dagger=\mathrm{adj}(X)\}$ is a quaternion algebra over $E$ with $Q_W^1=\mathrm{SU}(H)(E)$ [26, Lemma 7.3]. If $\gamma,\eta\in Q_W^1$, $\iota=2\gamma-\mathrm{tr}\gamma$ and $\jmath=\iota\eta-\eta\iota$, then $\iota^2=\alpha$ and $\jmath^2=\beta$ are scalars, $\iota\jmath=-\jmath\iota$, and $Q_W\cong(\alpha,\beta)_E$ if $\alpha\beta\ne0$ (G1).

**Proposition 6.1** ([26, Prop. 7.5]). Let $S$ have $E(S)=E$ totally real, $\dim_ET=4$, and an injective $E$-linear Hodge morphism $T\to M\otimes N$ with image in $B$, for polarized $F$-rank-two $M,N$. Then $\det\varphi_E\in E^{\times2}$ and $Q_T\cong Q_M$.

The proof compares $\mathrm{Hg}(M\oplus N)^{\rm der}\subseteq\mathrm{Res}_{E/\mathbb Q}(\mathrm{SL}_1(Q_M)\times\mathrm{SL}_1(Q_N))$ with $\mathrm{Hg}(T)=\mathrm{Res}\,\mathrm{SO}(\varphi_E)$. Dimensions ($6d$) force an isogeny, simple connectedness gives $\mathrm{Spin}(\varphi_E)\cong\mathrm{SL}_1(Q_M)\times\mathrm{SL}_1(Q_N)$, and (Q1) gives the rest. Nothing in it depends on $[E:\mathbb Q]=2$. For every family of the census the realization exists: for untwisted data by [16], [17], [21], [22] (and C1–C2), for twisted data by §5.2 through $\Sigma$. Since $M_t$ depends only on $(k,n)$, twisted and untwisted data with the same $(k,n)$ have the same type.

### 6.2 The monodromy computation

$Q_{M}$ does not depend on $t$. The pair $(M_t,F,H)$ is a local system over the $a$-line, $t=a^n$, with monodromy in $\mathrm U(H)(E)$. So $g^2/\det_F g\in Q_M^1$ for $g$ in the monodromy group. At the embedding $(1,1)$, $M\cong V_{1,1}$. The periods of $e_{1,1}$ are, after $z=x^n$, the Euler integrals $\int z^{a'}(z-1)^{b'}(z-t)^{b'}dz$ with $a'=\frac1n+\frac1k-1$ and $b'=-\frac1k$. Following [26, §7.5] ([10], [11]), $V_{1,1}$ is dual to a Gauss hypergeometric local system with Levelt parameters $\alpha=(\frac1k,\frac1k-\frac1n)$ and $\beta=(1,1-\frac1n)$, and it is irreducible ($\alpha_i\not\equiv\beta_j$, checked for all 16 pairs). We take $\gamma,\eta$ to be the normalized squares of $x=\rho\cdot B\rho B^{-1}$ and $y=\rho\cdot B^2\rho B^{-2}$, where $\rho=AB^{-1}$. These lie in the $a$-line monodromy. As cross-checks we also use $(x,B\rho B^{-1}B^2\rho B^{-2})$ and the full pair $(h_0,h_\infty)$.

`verify.py` G2 computes $\alpha,\beta$ exactly in $\mathbb Q(\zeta_N)$. It guesses their coordinates in the basis $\theta^i$, $\theta=\zeta_n+\zeta_n^{-1}$, from the $d$ real embeddings, then certifies them by an exact identity modulo $\Phi_N$. It then decides the ramification of $(\alpha,\beta)_E$:
- *real places*: by signs;
- *odd primes*: for each odd $p$ dividing the norms or denominators, $p$ is decomposed by Dedekind's criterion in $\mathbb Z[\theta]$, which is the ring of integers of $\mathbb Q(\zeta_n)^+$. The symbol at each $\mathfrak p=(p,g(\theta))$ is the tame symbol $\bigl((-1)^{v_av_b}a^{v_b}b^{-v_a}\bmod\mathfrak p\bigr)^{(N\mathfrak p-1)/2}$. Valuations use a uniformizer ($p$ if $e=1$, $g(\theta)$ or $g(\theta)+p$ if $e>1$). Residues are computed after multiplying by an auxiliary element lying in all other primes over $p$;
- *the prime over 2*: in all fields here there is exactly one prime over 2 (inert in $\mathbb Q(\sqrt5),\mathbb Q(\zeta_7)^+,\mathbb Q(\zeta_9)^+,\mathbb Q(\zeta_{11})^+$; ramified in $\mathbb Q(\sqrt2),\mathbb Q(\sqrt3),\mathbb Q(\zeta_{16})^+$). Its symbol follows from Hilbert reciprocity.

G8 checks the local symbol against $(a,N_{E_\mathfrak p/\mathbb Q_p}b)_p$ for $a\in\mathbb Q$ in five cases, among them the inert prime 3 and the totally ramified prime over 7 of $\mathbb Q(\zeta_7)^+$, the three primes over 13, and the totally ramified prime over 3 of $\mathbb Q(\zeta_9)^+$. G3 reproduces the five quadratic values of [26].

*Internal consistency.* In every one of the 16 cases the computed algebra is split at $\tau_0$ and ramified at every definite real place, as Proposition 6.1 and the signatures require. All three word choices give the same algebra. For $d=3$ this is two independent sign conditions per case, for $d=5$ four.

*Hand check for the cubic cases* ($\theta=2\cos(2\pi/n)$):
- $(6,14)$: $\alpha=-1+\theta-\theta^2$ has norm $-7$ and is negative at all three real places. $\beta=-88+128\theta+156\theta^2$ has norm $2^6\cdot7$ and is positive only at $\tau_0$. So $(\alpha,\beta)$ is split at $\tau_0$ and ramified at $\tau_2,\tau_3$. The only odd prime involved is the ramified $\mathfrak p_7$, where both have valuation 1 and the tame symbol is $+1$. Reciprocity then makes the inert prime $(2)$ unramified.
- $(6,7)$: $\alpha=-1-\theta-\theta^2$ (norm $-7$) and $\beta=8\theta+4\theta^2$ (norm $2^6$, a unit times $4$). The pattern is the same.
- $(6,18)$, $(6,9)$: $\alpha=\theta-\theta^2$, resp. $-\theta-\theta^2$, of norm $-3$, and $\beta$ of norm $2^6\cdot3^2$, resp. $2^6$. Again the algebra is unramified at all finite places.
- $(3,5)$: $\alpha=750+465\theta$ and $\beta=-5310000-3281760\theta$, with $\theta=\frac{-1+\sqrt5}2$. The symbol is $-1$ at the inert prime $3$ (residue field $\mathbb F_9$) and $+1$ at $(\sqrt5)$ and at the primes over 11. This gives ramification at $\{\infty',(3)\}$.

For $d=4$ ($(6,16)$) parity forces ramification at the prime over 2 once the three definite places are ramified and no odd prime is. For $d=3,5$ parity forbids it.

*Proof of Theorem 2.* (1) is §5.1. For (2), combine §6.1 with the computation, recorded in G2–G7. (3) follows by inspection of the table: G7 counts 10 distinct (field, finite ramification) pairs. $\square$

*Remark 6.2.* (i) The datum $(4,18)$ is Hodge-admissible with $Q$ ramified at the primes over 2 and 3 of $\mathbb Q(\zeta_9)^+$, a type not in the table. But its twisted S4 surface has $\chi(\mathcal O)=3$ (B2). This is the nearest miss of the census. (ii) For the $\mathbb Q(\sqrt5)$ families, the realization of $T$ for $(3,5)$ uses the curves of [17, §2]. By Proposition 6.1, very general members of rStation 61's $(3,5)$ family, of rStation 65's $(4,5)$ family and of rStation 106's $(6,10)$ family are pairwise not rationally Hodge isometric. We have not determined the type of rStation 28's one-parameter family.

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## 7. Transfer (Theorem 3)

An *$E$-quadratic space of K3 type* is $(V,\varphi_E)$ with signature $(2,\dim_EV-2)$ at one real place $\tau_0$ and negative definite elsewhere. If $E\subseteq E(S)$ acts on $T(S)$, then $(T(S),\varphi_E)$ is of K3 type with $\tau_0$ the character on $H^{2,0}$.

**Proposition 7.1** ([26, Thm. 3]). If a family of projective K3 surfaces of type $(V,\varphi_E)$ has open local period map and HC for all powers of every member, then HC holds for all powers of every projective K3 surface $S'$ with $(T(S'),\varphi_E)\cong(V,\varphi_E)$.

*Proof (any totally real $E$).* Let $p(W_0)\subset\mathcal D=\{\ell\in\mathbb P(V_{\tau_0}\otimes\mathbb C):\ell^2=0,\ \ell\bar\ell>0\}$ be open, and let $\psi\colon T(S')\to V$ be an $E$-isometry. $\mathrm{SO}(\varphi_{E,\tau_0})(\mathbb R)\cong\mathrm{SO}(2,2)$ acts transitively on $\mathcal D$, since the stabilizer $\mathrm{SO}(2)\times\mathrm O(2)$ of an oriented positive plane meets both components. By weak approximation (Q3), $\mathrm{SO}(\varphi_E)(E)$ is dense in $\prod_\tau\mathrm{SO}(\varphi_{E,\tau})(\mathbb R)$, hence in the $\tau_0$-factor. So some $g\in\mathrm{SO}(\varphi_E)(E)$ maps $\psi(H^{2,0}(S'))$ into $p(W_0)$, say to $p(s)$. Then $g\psi$ is a Hodge isometry from $T(S')$ to the Hodge structure of $S_s$ on $V$. The latter has no rational $(1,1)$-classes, since $T(S')$ has none, so $V=T(S_s)$. Witt cancellation extends $g\psi$ to a rational Hodge isometry $H^2(S')\cong H^2(S_s)$, which is algebraic by (R3). HC for all powers transfers as in [21, Cor. C]. $\square$

*Proof of Theorem 3.* By (Q2), the hypotheses determine $(T(S'),\varphi_E)$ up to $E$-isometry as the type of the row. Each row has a reference family with HC for every member and open period map:
- $\mathbb Q(\zeta_7)^+$: $\mathcal X^{(6,14)}$ (Theorem 1);
- $\mathbb Q(\zeta_9)^+$: $\mathcal X^{(6,18)}$ (Theorem 1), or [22];
- $\mathbb Q(\sqrt5),(2)$: $\mathcal X^{(4,10)}$ (Theorem 1);
- $\mathbb Q(\sqrt2)$: $\mathcal X^{(3,8)}$ (Theorem 1), or [21];
- $\mathbb Q(\sqrt5),(3)$: [17] for HC, Remark 5.4 for openness;
- $\mathbb Q(\sqrt5),(\sqrt5)$ and $\mathbb Q(\sqrt3),(1+\sqrt3)$: [22];
- $\mathbb Q(\sqrt3),(\sqrt3)$: [26];
- $\mathbb Q(\zeta_{11})^+$: the $n=11$ sextic family, with HC for every member by [22, Remark 4] (or [16]) and openness by [22, Lemma 6.3, §6.6], which are stated for all $n$;
- $\mathbb Q(\zeta_{16})^+$: $(6,16)$tw, by Remark 5.4. If, as appears likely, this is the family of [19], [20], then [20] proves HC for all its products.

Proposition 7.1 applies. $\square$

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## 8. Verification

`verify.py` runs 96 checks in exact arithmetic in about 100 s. It supports the computations; the Hodge-theoretic implications are proved in the text.

| Statement | Where | checks |
|---|---|---|
| Hodge-admissible data, genera, Chevalley–Weil, Hodge numbers of $B$ | §3.1, §3.3 | A1–A3 |
| Census: exactly 20 K3 data; others $\chi\ne2$; Nikulin vs $\chi=3$ twists | §5.1, Thm. 2(1) | B1–B3 |
| Weierstrass conversions, 3-torsion, twist | §3.2 | B4–B7 |
| Dickson identities | §5.1 | B8 |
| $\Delta$, $c_4$, fibres at $0,\infty$, multiplicativity, minimality; 80 samples | §5.1 | B9–B12 |
| Trivial lattices | §5.3 | B13 |
| Quotient identities and pull-back constants for $(6,14),(6,18),(4,10),(3,8),(3,5),(6,16)$ | §5.2 | C1–C3 |
| Projection, $\theta$-eigenvalues, $E=\mathbb Q(\zeta_n)^+$, $\iota$ | §5.2 | C4–C7 |
| Every $b\ne0$ reached; $j$-maps; moduli lemma | §5.3 | D1–D5 |
| Interleaving; descent for five $(E,K)$, $m=2,3$; control | (R0) | E1–E4 |
| Trace lemma; types of all 16 $(k,n)$; reproduction of [26]; controls | §6 | G1–G8 |
| Rank bookkeeping | Prop. 5.2 | F1 |

Floating point is used only to guess rational coordinates, which are then certified exactly. B12 and D1 test finitely many samples; the text gives general arguments. The census B1 uses one generic rational parameter per datum, and the degree argument of §5.1 makes it independent of that choice.

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## 9. Limitations

- **No new rational type and no new field.** This is the main limitation, and it is a theorem within the construction (Theorem 2(3)). The new families give self-contained proofs, plus new special members, for types where HC was already known on other families.
- **Imported inputs.** Theorem A and the descent lemma of [21] (rechecked in exact arithmetic for five fields, not reproved). Varesco, Zarhin (including $\mathrm{Hg}=\mathrm{SO}$), Buskin, Torelli, Brieskorn. The Levelt normalization and Proposition 6.1 of rStation 108 [26], which is not yet refereed. The classification of quadratic forms and weak approximation. The hypergeometric identification of $V_{1,1}$ is the step a referee should check most carefully. It is tested by the split/ramified pattern at all real places (16 cases, up to 4 conditions each) and by agreement of three word choices.
- **Identification of the cited families.** We assume that the families of [16], [17], [22] are realized through $M_t\otimes M_u$ as in §5.2; [16], [17] state this construction. For [19], [20] we did not check the identification with $(6,16)$tw.
- **Products.** Nothing on $\mathcal X_{b,c}\times\mathcal X_{b',c'}$.
- **Types of special members.** $m=3$ members and Noether–Lefschetz loci are covered for HC by Theorem 1(3), but their types are not computed. Theorem 3 needs $\dim_ET=4$.
- **Scope of the census.** Only $k\in\{3,4,6\}$, the branch pattern $x^n+tx^{-n}-(1+t)$, the three genus-one quotients of $W^2=s^{2k}+hs^k+1$, and the twist $r=q^2$. Other branch exponents (for example $v^k=x^{e}(x^n-1)(x^n-t)$ with $e\equiv-n\bmod k/2$) are not explored.

## 10. Reproducibility

`verify.py` is one self-contained Python 3 script: SymPy, NumPy object arrays of `Fraction`s, and the standard library. It reads and writes no files, does not use `__file__`, and uses a fixed seed. Under Python 3.13.16, SymPy 1.14.0 and NumPy 2.5.3 it ends with `checks = 96`, `FALLOS = 0` (`verify_output.txt`).

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