Abstract:
Calabi-Yau varieties are generalizations of elliptic curves and K3
surfaces. From the point of view of algebraic geometry, the question
of boundedness of such varieties seems interesting. Following the work
of Mark Gross, we prove that up to birational equivalence there are
only finitely many families of 3-dimensional Calabi-Yau varieties that
satisfy certain conditions. More precisely, singularities should be
terminal and factorial, and the given variety should admit a fibration
into elliptic curves over a rational surface.