A family of threefolds with several unusual features

Antonella Grassi (Università di Bologna)

11-Oct-2022, 15:00-16:00 (18 months ago)

Abstract: I will discuss some of the unusual properties, in geometry and physics, of a family of Calabi-Yau threefolds fibered by elliptic curves. I will compare it to a construction by Elkies and a classical results of Burkhardt. This leads to some open questions.

algebraic geometrydifferential geometrysymplectic geometry

Audience: researchers in the topic


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