Diffeomorphism classes of the doubling Calabi-Yau threefolds with Picard number two

Abstract

Previously we constructed Calabi-Yau threefolds by a differential-geometric gluing method using Fano threefolds with their smooth anticanonical $K3$ divisors (New York J. Math. 20: 1-33, 2014). In this paper, we further consider the diffeomorphism classes of the resulting Calabi-Yau threefolds (which are called the doubling Calabi-Yau threefolds) starting from different pairs of Fano threefolds with Picard number one. Using the classifications of simply-connected $6$-manifolds in differential topology and the $\lambda$-invariant introduced by Lee (J. Math. Pures Appl. 141: 195-219, 2020), we prove that any two of the doubling Calabi-Yau threefolds with Picard number two are not diffeomorphic to each other when the underlying Fano threefolds are distinct families.