(0,2)-Deformations and the $G$-Hilbert Scheme

Benjamin Gaines

Published 2014-04-16, updated 2014-05-30Version 2

We study first order deformations of the tangent sheaf of resolutions of Calabi-Yau threefolds that are of the form $\mathbb{C}^3/Z_r$, focusing on the cases where the orbifold has an isolated singularity. We prove a lower bound on the number of deformations for any crepant resolution of this orbifold. We show that this lower bound is achieved when the resolution used is the G-Hilbert scheme, and note that this lower bound can be found using methods from string theory. These methods lead us to a new way to construct the G-Hilbert scheme using the singlet count.