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The relationship between K3 surfaces and singular affine structures on S2S^{2} is of very general origin. Starting with a projective analytic Calabi-Yau manifold XX over a complete non-archimedean local field KK one can canonically construct a PL manifold S​k​(X)Sk(X) called the skeleton of XX. If XX is a generic K3 surface then S​k​(X)Sk(X) is S2S^{2}. We discuss skeleta in Section 6.6. The group of birational automorphisms of XX acts on S​k​(X)Sk(X) by integral PL transformations. For X=K​3X=K3 we obtain an action of an arithmetic subgroup of S​O​(1,18)SO(1,18) on S2S^{2}. Further examples should come from Calabi-Yau manifolds with large groups of birational automorphisms.

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