This is the source code of my thesis for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor. The PDF file is here.
The main goal of my thesis is the construction of new Calabi-Yau manifolds. I study the singularity C(dP_6), which is the cone over a del Pezzo surface of degree 6. It has two topologically distinct smoothings. In Chapter 3, I compute the the singular homology groups of each smoothing.
The last chapter is devoted to the construction of new Calabi-Yau manifolds. I also propose mirror candidates.
The folder "thesis" contains the LaTeX source of my thesis. The folder "calculations" contains the source code of my Macaulay2 calculations.
I can be reached on Twitter (@FredrikMeyer), on e-mail (hrmeyer + some big email-provider which is also a search engine).