Complex refiection groups and K3 surfaces I

Abstract

We construct here many families of K3 surfaces that one can obtain as quotients of algebraic surfaces by some subgroups of the rank four complex refiection groups. We find in total 15 families with at worst ADE-singularities. In particular we classify all the K3 surfaces that can be obtained as quotients by the derived subgroup of the previous complex refiection groups. We prove our results by using the geometry of the weighted projective spaces where these surfaces are embedded and the theory of Springer and Lehrer-Springer on properties of complex refiection groups. This construction generalizes a previous construction by W. Barth and the second author.