The extremal orbifold Betti-number and Euler-characteristic conjecture

Let nn be a positive integer, and consider projective nn-dimensional varieties with quotient singularities and trivial canonical class. Write HH for the sum of their orbifold Betti numbers. For odd nn, write χorb\chi_{\mathrm{orb}} for the orbifold Euler characteristic. Extremal orbifold invariants conjecture. In dimension nn, the largest possible value of HH is

H=2(s01)(sn1).H=2(s_0-1)\cdots(s_n-1).

For odd nn, the smallest possible orbifold Euler characteristic is

(s01)(sn11)(2sn6),-(s_0-1)\cdots(s_{n-1}-1)(2s_n-6),

and the largest is

(s01)(sn11)(2sn6).(s_0-1)\cdots(s_{n-1}-1)(2s_n-6).

The conjecture is motivated by three explicit examples whose common Betti-number sum is the largest known for Calabi-Yau threefolds. The source gives no resolution status.

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Primary source

Louis Esser, Burt Totaro and Chengxi Wang, “Calabi-Yau varieties of large index”, arXiv:2209.04597 (2022).

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