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On an example of Aspinwall and Morrison

Author(s): Balázs Szendroi
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 621-632.
MSC (2000): Primary 14J32, 14C34, 14M25
Posted: September 29, 2003
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Abstract: In this paper, a family of smooth multiply-connected Calabi-Yau threefolds is investigated. The family presents a counterexample to global Torelli as conjectured by Aspinwall and Morrison.


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Additional Information:

Balázs Szendroi
Affiliation: Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80010, NL-3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands -- and -- Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 127, H-1364 Budapest, Hungary
Email: szendroi@math.uu.nl

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07084-9
PII: S 0002-9939(03)07084-9
Received by editor(s): October 25, 2001
Received by editor(s) in revised form: July 20, 2002
Posted: September 29, 2003
Additional Notes: This research was partially supported by an Eastern European Research Bursary from Trinity College, Cambridge and an ORS Award from the British Government
Communicated by: Michael Stillman
Copyright of article: Copyright 2003, American Mathematical Society


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