Largest-vanishing-range conjecture for quasi-smooth Calabi–Yau hypersurfaces

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Let s0=2s_0=2 and sm=sm−1(sm−1−1)+1s_m=s_{m-1}(s_{m-1}-1)+1 for m≥1m\geq 1 be Sylvester's sequence. For a positive integer nn, let XX be the nn-fold from the quasi-smooth Calabi–Yau hypersurface construction in Proposition 2. Largest-vanishing-range conjecture. There is a largest possible positive integer MM such that

H0(X,OX(ℓ))=0for 1≤ℓ<M,H^0(X,\mathcal{O}_X(\ell))=0\qquad\text{for }1\leq \ell<M,

and this XX realizes that largest MM among all quasi-smooth Calabi–Yau hypersurfaces of dimension nn. Low-dimensional computations support the claim, while its validity for arbitrary dimension remains open.

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Louis Esser, Burt Totaro and Chengxi Wang, “Varieties of general type with doubly exponential asymptotics”, arXiv:2109.13383 (2022).

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