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K3-fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds I, the twist map

Algebraic Geometry 2023-09-12 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

A construction of Calabi-Yaus as quotients of products of lower-dimensional spaces in the context of weighted hypersurfaces is discussed, including desingularisation. The construction leads to Calabi-Yaus which have a fiber structure, in particular one case has K3 surfaces as fibers. These Calabi-Yaus are of some interest in connection with Type II -heterotic string dualities in dimension 4. A section at the end of the paper summarises this for the non-expert mathematician.

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@article{arxiv.math/9904059,
  title  = {K3-fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds I, the twist map},
  author = {Bruce Hunt and Rolf Schimmrigk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9904059},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

31 pages LaTeX, 11pt, 2 figures. To appear in International Journal of Mathematics. On the web at http://personal-homepages.mis.mpg.de/bhunt/preprints.html , #5