Cyclic coverings of Fano threefolds
Volume 80 / 2003
Annales Polonici Mathematici 80 (2003), 117-124
MSC: Primary 14B05, 14J30; Secondary 32B10.
DOI: 10.4064/ap80-0-9
Abstract
We describe a series of Calabi–Yau manifolds which are cyclic coverings of a Fano 3-fold branched along a smooth divisor. For all the examples we compute the Euler characteristic and the Hodge numbers. All examples have small Picard number $\varrho =h^{1,1}$.