English

CY Manifolds with Locally Symmetric Moduli Spaces

Algebraic Geometry 2008-07-02 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory Differential Geometry

Abstract

There is a natural sequence of CY manifolds that are double covers of the projective g dimensional spaces ramified over 2g+2 hyperplanes. We observe that some of them are obtained as quotient of the action of the semi-direct product of g-1 copies of cyclic Z/2Z groups with the symmetric g group on the product of g-copies of hyper-elliptic curves of genus g. The quotient is a double cover of the projective g space ramified over 2g+2 hyperplanes. This construction generalizes the construction of a Kummer surface. The Kodaira-Spencer classes on the Jacobian are invariant under the action of the group. Thus they form a basis of Kodaira-Spencer classes on the CY manifold. Since the bracket of any Kodaira-Spencer classes on the Jacobian are zero, then they will be zero on the CY manifold. This implies that the moduli space of those CY manifolds is a locally symmetric space.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0806.4010,
  title  = {CY Manifolds with Locally Symmetric Moduli Spaces},
  author = {Andrey N. Todorov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.4010},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

one reference is added and several typoes are corrected. Some changes are made in the introduction

R2 v1 2026-06-21T10:54:03.797Z