We prove that the categorical entropy of the autoequivalence $T_{mathcal{O}}circ(-otimesmathcal{O}(-1))$ on a Calabi-Yau manifold is the unique positive real number $lambda$ satisfying $$ sum_{kgeq 1}frac{chi(mathcal{O}(k))}{e^{klambda}}=e^{(d-1)t}. $$ We then use this result to construct the first counterexamples of a conjecture on categorical entropy by Kikuta and Takahashi.
We compute numerical approximations of the period integrals for eleven rigid double octic Calabi--Yau threefolds and compare them with the periods of corresponding weight our cusp forms and find, as to be expected, commensurabilities. These give information on character of the correspondences of these varieties with the associated Kuga-Sato modular threefolds.
In this paper we study Higgs and co-Higgs $G$-bundles on compact Kahler manifolds $X$. Our main results are: (1) If $X$ is Calabi-Yau, and $(E,,theta)$ is a semistable Higgs or co-Higgs $G$-bundle on $X$, then the principal $G$-bundle $E$ is semistable. In particular, there is a deformation retract of ${mathcal M}_H(G)$ onto $mathcal M(G)$, where $mathcal M(G)$ is the moduli space of semistable principal $G$-bundles with vanishing rational Chern classes on $X$, and analogously, ${mathcal M}_H(G)$ is the moduli space of semistable principal Higgs $G$-bundles with vanishing rational Chern classes. (2) Calabi-Yau manifolds are characterized as those compact Kahler manifolds whose tangent bundle is semistable for every Kahler class, and have the following property: if $(E,,theta)$ is a semistable Higgs or co-Higgs vector bundle, then $E$ is semistable.
Motivated by mirror symmetry of one-parameter models, an interesting class of Fuchsian differential operators can be singled out, the so-called Calabi--Yau operators, introduced by Almkvist and Zudilin. They conjecturally determine $Sp(4)$-local systems that underly a $mathbb{Q}$-VHS with Hodge numbers [h^{3 0}=h^{2 1}=h^{1 2}=h^{0 3}=1] and in the best cases they make their appearance as Picard--Fuchs operators of families of Calabi--Yau threefolds with $h^{12}=1$ and encode the numbers of rational curves on a mirror manifold with $h^{11}=1$. We review some of the striking properties of this rich class of operators.
We prove a structure theorem for the Albanese maps of varieties with Q-linearly trivial log canonical divisors. Our start point is the action of a nonlinear algebraic group on a projective variety.
In this note we initiate a program to obtain global descriptions of Calabi-Yau moduli spaces, to calculate their Picard group, and to identify within that group the Hodge line bundle, and the closely-related Bagger-Witten line bundle. We do this here for several Calabi-Yaus obtained in [DW09] as crepant resolutions of the orbifold quotient of the product of three elliptic curves. In particular we verify in these cases a recent claim of [GHKSST16] by noting that a power of the Hodge line bundle is trivial -- even though in most of these cases the Picard group is infinite.