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Type III contractions and quintic threefolds

Algebraic Geometry 2021-05-19 v3

Abstract

We study type III contractions of Calabi-Yau threefolds containing a ruled surface over a smooth curve. We discuss the conditions necessary for the image threefold to by smoothable. We describe the change in Hodge numbers caused by this contraction and smoothing deformation. A generalization of a fomula for calculating Hodge numbers of hypersurfaces in P4\mathbb{P}^4 with ordinary double and triple points is presented. We use these results to construct new Calabi-Yau threefolds of Picard rank two arising from a family of quintic threefolds containing a cone.

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@article{arxiv.2010.13866,
  title  = {Type III contractions and quintic threefolds},
  author = {Kacper Grzelakowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.13866},
  year   = {2021}
}
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