On complete intersections with trivial canonical class (Q471684)

The paper under preview proves the following theorem. Theorem 5.2. Consider the set of \(n\)-dimensional varieties \(X\) with Gorenstein canonical singularities and trivial canonical class which can be written as a connected component of a scheme-theoretic intersection of base point free divisors \(F_i \in |D_i |\) in an \((n + k)\)-dimensional bpf-big Fano variety \(P\) with \(\sum_i D_i = -K_P\). Then this set is birationally bounded for any \(n\) independent of \(k\). Here a variety is bpf-big Fano if it is Gorenstein, normal, with base point free, big anticanonical divisor. The motivation of this result comes from string theory and the Batyrev-Borisov construction of Calabi-Yau complete intersections in toric Fano varieties. As a corollary of the main theorem, the construction of Batyrev-Borisov only gives a birationally bounded family. For example the stringy Hodge numbers are bounded. The proof uses the deep results of McKernan-Hacon-Xu [\textit{C. D. Hacon} et al., Ann. Math. (2) 180, No. 2, 523--571 (2014; Zbl 1320.14023)].