Families of Calabi-Yau elliptic fibrations in \(\mathbb{P} (\mathcal{L}^a\oplus\mathcal{L}^b\oplus\mathcal{O}_B)\) (Q1755465)

Calabi-Yau manifolds play an important role in different areas of mathematics. In particular Calabi-Yau manifolds which admit an elliptic fibration are very interesting object for theoretical physics. A good candidate in dimension three can be obtained in the following way: let \(B\) a smooth projective surface with an ample line bundle \(L\) and take a generic element \(X\) in the anticanonical system of \(Z:=\mathbb{P}(L^a\oplus L^b \oplus \mathcal{O}_B)\). If this generic element is smooth, then it has automatically trivial canonical bundle and the generic fiber of induced fibration to \(B\) is a smooth genus one curve. So the obstruction for \(X\rightarrow B \) to be an elliptic fibration is given by the base locus of the anticanonical linear system \(|-K_Z|\) and by the non-existence of a section of \(X\rightarrow B\). In this paper, the author proves that over a fixed base \(B\), only for finite positive \(a\) and \(b\) we can find an elliptic Calabi--Yau constructed in this way in \(\mathbb{P}(L^a\oplus L^b \oplus \mathcal{O}_B)\). This result should be compared with other results in this direction as [\textit{G. Di Cerbo} and \textit{R. Svaldi}, ``Birational boundedness of low dimensional elliptic Calabi-Yau varieties with a section'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1608.02997}] and [\textit{M. Gross} Duke Math. J. 74, No. 2, 271--299 (1994; Zbl 0838.14033)]. In the last part of the paper there are many examples of elliptic Calabi--Yau threefolds constructed in this way.