On two families of enriques categories over K3 surfaces

Abstract This article studies the moduli spaces of semistable objects related to two families of Enriques categories over K3 surfaces, coming from quartic double solids and special Gushel–Mukai threefolds. In particular, some classic geometric constructions are recovered in a modular way, such as the double EPW sextic and cube associated with a general Gushel–Mukai surface, and the Beauville’s birational involution on the Hilbert scheme of two points on a quartic K3 surface. In addition, we describe the singular loci in some moduli spaces of semistable objects and an explicit birational involution on O’Grady’s hyperkähler tenfold. Also, the appendix investigates the general theory of Enriques categories over K3 surfaces and provides a criterion for when an equivariant category of a K3 surface is an Enriques category.