Trilinear forms and Chern classes of Calabi--Yau threefolds

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Authors Atsushi Kanazawa, P. M. H. Wilson

Publication date 16 April 2014

Published in Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.3266, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ojm/1396966232

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yau threefolds Euler characteristic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological properties in algebraic geometry (14F45) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32)

Abstract: Let X be a Calabi-Yau threefold and mu the symmetric trilinear form on the second cohomology group H^{2}(X,�) defined by the cup product. We investigate the interplay between the Chern classes c_{2}(X), c_{3}(X) and the trilinear form mu, and demonstrate some numerical relations between them. When the cubic form mu(x,x,x) has a linear factor over R, some properties of the linear form and the residual quadratic form are also obtained.

Review text

Let \(X\) be a projective threefold with \(K_X\) trivial and \(H^1(X,\mathcal{O}_X)=0\), i.e. a Calabi-Yau threefold (in the strict sense), and let \(H\) be a very ample divisor on \(X\). It is a well-known open problem whether the number of distinct topological types that \(X\) can have is finite or not. On the other hand, it is known that if the value of the selfintersection \(H^3\) is fixed, then there are only finitely many diffeomorphism types. The goal of this paper is to give an explicit bound for the Euler characteristic of \(X\) in terms of \(H^3\). By the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem, the Euler characteristic of \(X\) equals the Chern number \(c_3(X)\). The authors prove that \[ -72 H^3 -160\leq c_3(X)\leq 12 H^3+80. \]

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