Generalized Borcea-Voisin Construction
Algebraic Geometry
2016-05-17 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
C. Voisin and C. Borcea have constructed mirror pairs of families of Calabi-Yau threefolds by taking the quotient of the product of an elliptic curve with a K3 surface endowed with a non-symplectic involution. In this paper, we generalize the construction of Borcea and Voisin to any prime order and build three and four dimensional Calabi-Yau orbifolds. We classify the topological types that are obtained and show that, in dimension 4, orbifolds built with an involution admit a crepant resolution and come in topological mirror pairs. We show that for odd primes, there are generically no minimal resolutions and the mirror pairing is lost.
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@article{arxiv.1008.2207,
title = {Generalized Borcea-Voisin Construction},
author = {Jimmy Dillies},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.2207},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
15 pages, 2 figures. v2: typos corrected & references added