Calabi–Yau threefolds with non-Gorenstein involutions

The concept of non-Gorenstein involutions on Calabi–Yau threefolds is a higher dimensional generalization of non-symplectic involutions on K3 surfaces. We present some elementary facts about Calabi–Yau threefolds with non-Gorenstein involutions. We give a classification of the Calabi–Yau threefolds of Picard rank one with non-Gorenstein involutions, whose fixed locus is not zero-dimensional.     

Periods of singular double octic Calabi–Yau threefolds and modular forms

By the modularity theorem, every rigid Calabi–Yau threefold X has associated modular form f such that the equality of L-functions holds. In this case, period integrals of X are expected to be expressible in terms of the special values and . We propose a similar interpretation of period integrals of a nodal model of X. It is given in terms of certain variants of a Mellin transform of f. We provide numerical evidence toward this interpretation based on a case of double octics.     

Calabi–Yau Coalgebras

We present a method for constructing the minimal injective resolution of a simple comodule of a path coalgebra of quivers with relations. Dual to the Calabi–Yau condition of algebras, we introduce the concept of a Calabi–Yau coalgebra, and then describe the Calabi–Yau coalgebras of low global dimensions.     

Deformations of Quadratic Algebras with Antisymmetric Relations

A finitely generated quadratic algebra with antisymmetric generating relations is called a weakly symmetric algebra. The automorphism group and Calabi–Yau property of a Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt (PBW)-deformation of a weakly symmetric algebra are discussed. It is shown that the Calabi–Yau property of a PBW-deformation of a weakly symmetric algebra is equivalent to that of the corresponding augmented PBW-deformation under some mild conditions.     

Primitive Contractions of Calabi–Yau Threefolds I

We construct examples of primitive contractions of Calabi–Yau threefolds with exceptional locus being ?¹ × ?¹, ?², and smooth del Pezzo surfaces of degrees ≤ 5. We describe the images of these primitive contractions and find their smoothing families. In particular, we give a method to compute the Hodge numbers of a generic fiber of the smoothing familly of each Calabi–Yau threefold with one isolated singularity obtained after a primitive contraction of type II. As an application, we get examples of natural conifold transitions between some families of Calabi–Yau threefolds.     

Examples of Calabi–Yau Threefolds as Covers of Almost-Fano Threefolds

We give a method for producing examples of Calabi–Yau threefolds as covers of degree d ≤ 8 of almost-Fano threefolds, computing explicitely their Euler– Poincaré characteristic. Such a method generalizes the well-knownclassical construction of Calabi–Yau threefolds as double covers of the projective space branched along octic surfaces.     

Elementary counterexamples to Kodaira vanishing in prime characteristic

Using methods from the modular representation theory of algebraic groups one can construct [1] a projective homogeneous space forSL ₄, in prime characteristic, which violates Kodaira vanishing. In this note we show how elementary algebraic geometry can be used to simplify and generalize this example.     

Higher dimensional Calabi–Yau manifolds of Kummer type

Based on Cynk–Hulek method from [7] we construct complex Calabi–Yau varieties of arbitrary dimensions using elliptic curves with an automorphism of order 6. Also we give formulas for Hodge numbers of varieties obtained from that construction. We shall generalize the result of [11] to obtain arbitrarily dimensional Calabi–Yau manifolds which are Zariski in any characteristic .     

New construction of complex manifold via conifold transition

For a generic anti-canonical hypersurface in each smooth toric Fano 4-fold with rank 2 Picard group, we prove there exist three isolated rational curves in it. Moreover, for all these 4-folds except one, the contractions of generic anti-canonical hypersurfaces along the three rational curves can be deformed to smooth threefolds which is diffeomorphic to connected sums of S3 ×S3 . In this manner, we obtain complex structures with trivial canonical bundles on some connected sums of S3 × S3 . This construction is an analogue of that made by Friedman [On threefolds with trivial canonical bundle. In: Complex Geometry and Lie Theory, volume 53 of Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1991, 103-134], Lu and Tian [Complex structures on connected sums of S3 × S3 . In: Manifolds and Geometry, Pisa, 1993, 284-293] who used only quintics in P4 .     

Log pairs on hypersurfaces of degreeN in {N{\text{ in }}\mathbb{P}^N

The objective of this paper is to study the birational structure of smooth hypersurfaces of degreeN in by examining properties of moving log pairs on them. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 68, No. 1, pp 131–138, July, 2000.     

On Riesz Means of Eigenvalues

In this article we prove the equivalence of certain inequalities for Riesz means of eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplacian with a classical inequality of Kac. Connections are made via integral transforms including those of Laplace, Legendre, Weyl, and Mellin, and the Riemann–Liouville fractional transform. We also prove new universal eigenvalue inequalities and monotonicity principles for Dirichlet Laplacians as well as certain Schrödinger operators. At the heart of these inequalities are calculations of commutators of operators, sum rules, and monotonic properties of Riesz means. In the course of developing these inequalities we prove new bounds for the partition function and the spectral zeta function (cf. Corollaries 3.5–3.7) and conjecture about additional bounds.