Intersections of two Grassmannians in $\mathbf{P}^9$
Abstract
We study the intersection of two copies of embedded in , and the intersection of the two projectively dual Grassmannians in the dual projective space. These intersections are deformation equivalent, derived equivalent Calabi-Yau threefolds. We prove that generically they are not birational. As a consequence, we obtain a counterexample to the birational Torelli problem for Calabi-Yau threefolds. We also show that these threefolds give a new pair of varieties whose classes in the Grothendieck ring of varieties are not equal, but whose difference is annihilated by a power of the class of the affine line. Our proof of non-birationality involves a detailed study of the moduli stack of Calabi-Yau threefolds of the above type, which may be of independent interest.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1707.00534,
title = {Intersections of two Grassmannians in $\mathbf{P}^9$},
author = {Lev A. Borisov and Andrei Caldararu and Alexander Perry},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.00534},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
30 pages, minor changes