ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
Hodge numbers of a double octic with non-isolated singularities
Authors 1
Affiliations
- Institute of Mathematics, Jagiellonian University, Reymonta 4, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
Abstract
If B is a surface in ℙ³ of degree 8 which is the union of two smooth surfaces intersecting transversally then the double covering of ℙ³ branched along B has a non-singular model which is a Calabi-Yau manifold. The aim of this note is to compute the Hodge numbers of this manifold.
Keywords
Hodge numbers, double solids, Calabi-Yau manifolds, surface singularities
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Pages:
221-226
Main language of publication
English
Received
1999-07-01
Accepted
1999-10-20
Published
2000
Exact and natural sciences