Constructing new Calabi-Yau 3-folds and their mirrors via conifold transitions

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2010.V14.N3.A3MaRDI QIDQ646470zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Victor Batyrev, Maximilian Kreuzer

Publication date 17 November 2011

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.3376, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.atmp/1309526468

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yau manifoldmirror symmetryconifold transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Calabi-Yau theory (complex-analytic aspects) (32Q25)

Abstract: We construct a surprisingly large class of new Calabi-Yau 3-folds $X$ with small Picard numbers and propose a construction of their mirrors $X^{\ast }$ using smoothings of toric hypersurfaces with conifold singularities. These new examples are related to the previously known ones via conifold transitions. Our results generalize the mirror construction for Calabi-Yau complete intersections in Grassmannians and flag manifolds via toric degenerations. There exist exactly 198849 reflexive 4-polytopes whose 2-faces are only triangles or parallelograms of minimal volume. Every such polytope gives rise to a family of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces with at worst conifold singularities. Using a criterion of Namikawa we found 30241 reflexive 4-polytopes such that the corresponding Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces are smoothable by a flat deformation. In particular, we found 210 reflexive 4-polytopes defining 68 topologically different Calabi--Yau 3-folds with $h_{11}=1$. We explain the mirror construction and compute several new Picard--Fuchs operators for the respective 1-parameter families of mirror Calabi-Yau 3-folds.

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