Fermat's cubic, Klein's quartic and rigid complex manifolds of Kodaira dimension one (Q2205218)

The following are shown in [\textit{I. Bauer} and \textit{F. Catanese}, Adv. Math. 333, 620--669 (2018; Zbl 1407.14003)]: (\(1\)) A rigid compact complex surface has Kodaira dimension either \(-\infty\) or \(2\). (\(2\)) For each \(n \geq 3\) and \(2 \leq k \leq n\), there exist rigid compact complex manifolds \(X_{n,k}\) of dimension \(n\) and Kodaira dimension \(k\). (\(3\)) For each \(n \geq 4\), there exist rigid compact complex manifolds of dimension \(n\) and Kodaira dimension \(0\). In [\textit{A. Beauville}, Prog. Math. 39, 1--26 (1983; Zbl 0537.53057)] it has been shown that there exist rigid threefolds of Kodaira dimension \(0\). This article shows that for each \(n \geq 3\) there exist infinitesimally rigid compact complex manifolds \(\hat{X_n}\) of Kodaira dimension \(1\). As a corollary one obtains the existence of rigid but not infinitesimally rigid compact complex manifolds of dimension \(n \geq 5\) and Kodaira dimension \(3\). The authors first construct infinitesimally rigid normal projective varieties with isolated canonical cyclic quotient singularities with Kodaira dimension \(1\) by taking the quotient of a product of \((n-1)\) Fermat Cubics and the Klein Quartic. Then they compare the deformations of the singular variety with those of a suitable resolution of singularities obtained by techniques of toric geometry to show that the resolutions are rigid compact complex manifolds of Kodaira dimension \(1\).