Jin Xing XU
For a generic anti-canonical hypersurface in each smooth toric Fano 4-fold with rank 2 Picard group, we prove there exist three isolated rational curves in it. Moreover, for all these 4-folds except one, the contractions of generic anti-canonical hypersurfaces along the three rational curves can be deformed to smooth threefolds which is diffeomorphic to connected sums of S3?S3. In this manner, we obtain complex structures with trivial canonical bundles on some connected sums of S3?S3. This construction is an analogue of that made by Friedman [On threefolds with trivial canonical bundle. In: Complex Geometry and Lie Theory, volume 53 of Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1991, 103-134], Lu and Tian [Complex structures on connected sums of S3?S3. In: Manifolds and Geometry, Pisa, 1993, 284-293] who used only quintics in P4.