• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.53 no.2
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• pp.149-174
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• 2013

In a previous paper, we described some Siegel modular threefolds which admit a Calabi-Yau model. Using a different method we give in this paper an enlarged list of such varieties. Basic for this method is a paper of van Geemen and Nygaard. They study a variety $\mathcal{X}$ that is the complete intersection of four quadrics in $\mathbb{P}^7(\mathbb{C})$. This is biholomorphic equivalent to the Satake compactification of $\mathcal{H}_2/{\Gamma}^{\prime}$ for a certain subgroup ${\Gamma}^{\prime}{\subset}Sp(2,\mathbb{Z})$ and it will be the starting point of our investigation. It has been pointed out that a (projective) small resolution of this variety is a rigid Calabi-Yau manifold $\tilde{\mathcal{X}}$. Then we will consider the action of quotients of modular groups on $\mathcal{X}$ and study possible resolutions that admits a Calabi-Yau model in the category of complex spaces.