Constructing new Calabi-Yau 3-folds and their mirrors via conifold transitions

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We construct a surprisingly large class of new Calabi-Yau 3-folds X with small Picard numbers and propose a construction of their mirrors X* using smoothings of toric hypersurfaces with conifold singularities. These new examples are related to the previously known ones via conifold transitions. Our results generalize the mirror construction for Calabi- Yau complete intersections in Grassmannians and flag manifolds via toric degenerations. There exist exactly 198849 reflexive four-polytopes whose two-faces are only triangles or parallelograms of minimal volume. Every such polytope gives rise to a family of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces with at worst conifold singularities. Using a criterion of Namikawa we found 30241 reflexive four-polytopes such that the corresponding Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces are smoothable by a flat deformation. In particular, we found 210 reflexive four-polytopes defining 68 topologically different Calabi-Yau 3-folds with h11 = 1. We explain the mirror construction and compute several new Picard-Fuchs operators for the respective oneparameter families of mirror Calabi-Yau 3-folds. © 2010 International Press.

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Batyrev, V., & Kreuzer, M. (2010). Constructing new Calabi-Yau 3-folds and their mirrors via conifold transitions. Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 14(3), 879–898. https://doi.org/10.4310/ATMP.2010.v14.n3.a3

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