Abstract:
Let $\Delta$ be a canonical Fano $3$-polytope, i.e., a $3$-dimensional lattice
polytope containing exactly one interior lattice point. Then the affine
surface $Z_{\Delta}$ defined by a generic Laurent polynomial $f_{\Delta}$ with the Newton
polytope $\Delta$ is birational to a smooth projective minimal surface $S_{\Delta}$
with $q = 0$ and $p_g = 1$. Using the classification of all $674,688$ canonical
Fano 3-polytopes obtained by Kasprzyk, we show that $S_{\Delta}$ is a $K3$-
surface except for exactly $9,089$ canonical Fano $3$-polytopes $\Delta$. In the
latter case, we obtain $9,040$ canonical Fano $3$-polytopes $\Delta$ defining
minimal elliptic surfaces $S_{\Delta}$ of Kodaira dimension $1$ and $49$ canonical
Fano $3$-polytopes $\Delta$ defining minimal surfaces $S_{\Delta}$ of general type with
$|\pi_1(S_{\Delta})| = K^2 \in \{1, 2\}$ considered by Kynev and Todorov. This is a
joint work with Kasprzyk and Schaller.