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On some constructions of Calabi-Yau manifolds.

Chan Kwok Wai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-81). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction to Toric Geometry --- p.7 / Chapter 1.1 --- Definitions of Toric Varieties --- p.7 / Chapter 1.2 --- Properties of Toric Varieties --- p.11 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Smoothness --- p.12 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Compactness --- p.12 / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Stratification --- p.13 / Chapter 1.3 --- Divisors on Toric Varieties --- p.14 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- Weil divisors --- p.14 / Chapter 1.3.2 --- Cartier divisors --- p.14 / Chapter 1.4 --- Polarized Toric Varieties --- p.16 / Chapter 2 --- Calabi-Yau Manifolds from Toric Varieties --- p.19 / Chapter 2.1 --- Toric Fano Varieties --- p.19 / Chapter 2.2 --- Calabi-Yau Hypersurf aces in Toric Fano Varieties --- p.23 / Chapter 2.3 --- Computation of Hodge Numbers of Zf --- p.28 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- The results of Danilov and Khovanskii --- p.29 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- "The Hodge number hn-2,1(Zf)" --- p.31 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- "The Hodge number hl,1(zf)" --- p.32 / Chapter 2.4 --- Calabi-Yau Complete Intersections in Toric Fano Va- rieties --- p.34 / Chapter 3 --- Calabi-Yau Manifolds by Quotients --- p.41 / Chapter 3.1 --- Free Group Actions --- p.41 / Chapter 3.2 --- Crepant Resolutions of Orbifolds --- p.44 / Chapter 3.3 --- Examples From Complex Tori --- p.49 / Chapter 3.4 --- Complex Multiplication and Calabi-Yau Threefolds --- p.51 / Chapter 4 --- Calabi-Yau Manifolds by Coverings --- p.56 / Chapter 4.1 --- Cyclic Coverings --- p.56 / Chapter 4.2 --- Admissible Blow-ups --- p.57 / Chapter 4.3 --- Double Covers of P3 Branched Along Octic Arrang- ments --- p.59 / Chapter 4.4 --- The Euler Number of X --- p.61 / Chapter 4.5 --- The Hodge Numbers of X --- p.65 / Chapter 4.6 --- K3-Fibrations and Modularity --- p.69 / Chapter 0 --- Bibliography --- p.78

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_324723
Date January 2004
ContributorsChan, Kwok Wai., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Mathematics.
Source SetsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, bibliography
Formatprint, 81 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
RightsUse of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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