An Abundance of K3 Fibrations from Polyhedra with Interchangeable Parts

作者:Candelas Philip*; Constantin Andrei; Skarke Harald
来源:Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2013, 324(3): 937-959.
DOI:10.1007/s00220-013-1802-2

摘要

Even a cursory inspection of the Hodge plot associated with Calabi-Yau threefolds that are hypersurfaces in toric varieties reveals striking structures. These patterns correspond to webs of elliptic-K3 fibrations whose mirror images are also elliptic-K3 fibrations. Such manifolds arise from reflexive polytopes that can be cut into two parts along slices corresponding to the K3 fibers. Any two half-polytopes over a given slice can be combined into a reflexive polytope. This fact, together with a remarkable relation on the additivity of Hodge numbers, explains much of the structure of the observed patterns.

  • 出版日期2013-12