Calabi–Yau varieties with semi-stable fibre structures

Abstract

Motivated by the Strominger–Yau–Zaslow conjecture, we study Calabi–Yau varieties with semi-stable fibre structures. We use Hodge theory to study the higher direct images of wedge products of relative cotangent sheaves of certain semi-stable families over higher dimensional quasi-projective bases, and obtain some results on positivity. We then apply these results to study non-isotrivial Calabi–Yau varieties fibred by semi-stable Abelian varieties (or hyperkahler varieties).