2021Communications in Contemporary MathematicsOpen access

A special Calabi–Yau degeneration with trivial monodromy

Sławomir Cynk, Duco van Straten

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A well-known theorem of Kulikov, Persson and Pinkham states that a degeneration of a family of K3-surfaces with trivial monodromy can be completed to a smooth family. We give a simple example that an analogous statement does not hold for Calabi–Yau threefolds.

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A well-known theorem of Kulikov, Persson and Pinkham states that a degeneration of a family of K3-surfaces with trivial monodromy can be completed to a smooth family. We give a simple example that an analogous statement does not hold for Calabi–Yau threefolds.

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A well-known theorem of Kulikov, Persson and Pinkham states that a degeneration of a family of K3-surfaces with trivial monodromy can be completed to a smooth family. We give a simple example that an analogous statement does not hold for Calabi–Yau threefolds.

Key concepts: Monodromy, Calabi–Yau manifold, Degeneration (medical), Statement (logic), Simple (philosophy), Pure mathematics, Mathematics, Philosophy

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