Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Author(s): Mark Gross; Simone Pavanelli
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 1-9.
MSC (2000): Primary 14J32
Posted: October 11, 2007
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Abstract: We compute the Brauer group of a Calabi-Yau threefold discovered by the first author and Sorin Popescu, and find it is $(\mathbb{Z}/8 \mathbb{Z})^2$ , the largest known Brauer group of a non-singular Calabi-Yau threefold.

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Mark Gross
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California-San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0112
Email: mgross@math.ucsd.edu

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