On Calabi--Yau threefolds associated to a web of quadrics

Abstract

We study the geometry of a birational map between an intersection of a web of quadrics in seven-dimensional complex projective space that contains a plane and the double octic branched along the discriminant of the web.

arXiv comment23 pages

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