Cyclic coverings, Calabi-Yau manifolds and complex multiplication /

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Author / Creator:Rohde, Jan Christian.
Imprint:Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2009.
Description:ix, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Lecture notes in mathematics, 0075-8434 ; 1975
Lecture notes in mathematics (Springer-Verlag) ; 1975.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7727037
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ISBN:9783642006388 (pbk.)
3642006388 (pbk.)
3642006396 (e-book.)
9783642006395 (e-book.)
Notes:Revision of work originally presented as the author's doctoral thesis--Universität Duisburg-Essen, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also published electronically.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. An introduction to Hodge structures and Shimura varieties
  • 1.1. The basic definitions
  • 1.2. Jacobians, Polarizations and Riemann's Theorem
  • 1.3. The definition of the Shimura datum
  • 1.4. Hermitian symmetric domains
  • 1.5. The construction of Shimura varieties
  • 1.6. The definition of complex multiplication
  • 1.7. Criteria and conjectures for complex multiplication
  • 2. Cyclic covers of the projective line
  • 2.1. Description of a cyclic cover of the projective line
  • 2.2. The local system corresponding to a cyclic cover
  • 2.3. The cohomology of a cover
  • 2.4. Cyclic covers with complex multiplication
  • 3. Some preliminaries for families of cyclic covers
  • 3.1. The generic Hodge group
  • 3.2. Families of covers of the projective line
  • 3.3. The homology and the monodromy representation
  • 4. The Galois group decomposition of the Hodge structure
  • 4.1. The Galois group representation on the first cohomology
  • 4.2. Quotients of covers and Hodge group decomposition
  • 4.3. Upper bounds for the Mumford-Tate groups of the direct summands
  • 4.4. A criterion for complex multiplication
  • 5. The computation of the Hodge group
  • 5.1. The monodromy group of an eigenspace
  • 5.2. The Hodge group of a general direct summand
  • 5.3. A criterion for the reaching of the upper bound
  • 5.4. The exceptional cases
  • 5.5. The Hodge group of a universal family of hyperelliptic curves
  • 5.6. The complete generic Hodge group
  • 6. Examples of families with dense sets of complex multiplication fibers
  • 6.1. The necessary condition SINT
  • 6.2. The application of SINT for the more complicated cases
  • 6.3. The complete lists of examples
  • 6.4. The derived variations of Hodge structures
  • 7. The construction of Calabi-Yau manifolds with complex multiplication
  • 7.1. The basic construction and complex multiplication
  • 7.2. The Borcea-Voisin tower
  • 7.3. The Viehweg-Zuo tower
  • 7.4. A new example
  • 8. The degree 3 case
  • 8.1. Prelude
  • 8.2. A modified version of the method of Viehweg and Zuo
  • 8.3. The resulting family and its involutions
  • 9. Other examples and variations
  • 9.1. The degree 3 case
  • 9.2. Calabi-Yau 3-manifolds obtained by quotients of degree 3
  • 9.3. The degree 4 case
  • 9.4. Involutions on the quotients of the degree 4 example
  • 9.5. The extended automorphism group of the degree 4 example
  • 9.6. The automorphism group of the degree 5 example by Viehweg and Zuo
  • 10. Examples of CMCY families of 3-manifolds and their invariants
  • 10.1. The length of the Yukawa coupling
  • 10.2. Examples obtained by degree 2 quotients
  • 10.3. Examples obtained by degree 3 quotients
  • 10.4. Outlook onto quotients by cyclic groups of high order
  • 11. Maximal families of CMCY type
  • 11.1. Facts about involutions and quotients of K3-surface
  • 11.2. The associated Shimura datum
  • 11.3. The examples
  • A. Examples of Calabi-Yau 3-manifolds with complex multiplication
  • A.1. Construction by degree 2 coverings of a ruled surface
  • A.2. Construction by degree 2 coverings of P2
  • A.3. Construction by a degree 3 quotient
  • References
  • Index