Some Calabi-Yau threefolds with obstructed deformations over the Witt vectors
Abstract
Description
I construct some smooth Calabi-Yau threefolds in characteristic two and three that do not lift to characteristic zero. These threefolds are pencils of supersingular K3-surfaces. The construction depends on Moret-Bailly's pencil of abelian surfaces and Katsura's analysis of generalized Kummer surfaces. The threefold in characteristic two turns out to be nonrigid.
16 pages, some proofs simplified, discriminants in Theorem 6.4 corrected
16 pages, some proofs simplified, discriminants in Theorem 6.4 corrected