%0 Journal Article
%T Analytic torsion for Borcea-Voisin threefolds
%A Ken-Ichi Yoshikawa
%J Mathematics
%D 2014
%I arXiv
%X In their study of genus-one string amplitude, Bershadsky-Cecotti-Ooguri-Vafa discovered a remarkable identification between holomorphic Ray-Singer torsion and instanton numbers for Calabi-Yau threefolds. The holomorphic torsion invariant for Calabi-Yau threefolds corresponding to the genus-one string amplitude is called BCOV invariant. In this paper, we establish an identification between the BCOV invariants of Borcea-Voisin threefolds and another holomorphic torsion invariants for K3 surfaces with involution. We also introduce BCOV invariants for certain class of Calabi-Yau orbifolds including Borcea-Voisin orbifolds. We make a comparison of BCOV invariants between Borcea-Voisin orbifolds and their crepant resolutions.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.0212v1