Abstract

In the first part of this paper we give a survey of classical results on Kummer surfaces with Picard number~17 from the point of view of lattice theory. We prove ampleness properties for certain divisors on Kummer surfaces, and we use them to describe projective models of Kummer surfaces of $(1,d)$-polarized abelian surfaces for $d=1,2,3$. As a consequence, we prove that, in these cases, the N\'eron-Severi group can be generated by lines. In the second part of the paper we use Kummer surfaces to obtain results on K3 surfaces with a symplectic action of the group $(\mathbb{Z} /2\mathbb{Z} )^4$. In particular, we describe the possible N\'eron-Severi groups of the latter in the case that the Picard number is $16$, which is the minimal possible. We also describe the N\'eron-Severi groups of the minimal resolution of the quotient surfaces which have 15 nodes. We extend certain classical results on Kummer surfaces to these families.

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