Twistor Geometry of Null Foliations in Complex Euclidean Space

We give a detailed account of the geometric correspondence between a smooth complex projective quadric hypersurface Qⁿ of dimension n≥3, and its twistor space PT, defined to be the space of all linear subspaces of maximal dimension of Qⁿ. Viewing complex Euclidean space CEⁿ as a dense open subset of...

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Published in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Date:2017
Main Author: Taghavi-Chabert, A.
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Language:English
Published: Інститут математики НАН України 2017
Online Access:https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/148560
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description We give a detailed account of the geometric correspondence between a smooth complex projective quadric hypersurface Qⁿ of dimension n≥3, and its twistor space PT, defined to be the space of all linear subspaces of maximal dimension of Qⁿ. Viewing complex Euclidean space CEⁿ as a dense open subset of Qⁿ, we show how local foliations tangent to certain integrable holomorphic totally null distributions of maximal rank on CEⁿ can be constructed in terms of complex submanifolds of PT. The construction is illustrated by means of two examples, one involving conformal Killing spinors, the other, conformal Killing-Yano 2-forms. We focus on the odd-dimensional case, and we treat the even-dimensional case only tangentially for comparison.
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Twistor Geometry of Null Foliations in Complex Euclidean Space / A. Taghavi-Chabert // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2017. — Т. 13. — Бібліогр.: 37 назв. — англ.
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2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 32L25; 53C28; 53C12
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https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/148560
We give a detailed account of the geometric correspondence between a smooth complex projective quadric hypersurface Qⁿ of dimension n≥3, and its twistor space PT, defined to be the space of all linear subspaces of maximal dimension of Qⁿ. Viewing complex Euclidean space CEⁿ as a dense open subset of Qⁿ, we show how local foliations tangent to certain integrable holomorphic totally null distributions of maximal rank on CEⁿ can be constructed in terms of complex submanifolds of PT. The construction is illustrated by means of two examples, one involving conformal Killing spinors, the other, conformal Killing-Yano 2-forms. We focus on the odd-dimensional case, and we treat the even-dimensional case only tangentially for comparison.
The author would like to thank Boris Doubrov, Lionel Mason and Jan Slov´ak for helpful discussions
 and comments, and the anonymous referees for their reports. He is also grateful to Lukas
 Vokrınek and Andreas Cap for clarifying some aspects of Section 2.5. This work was funded by
 a GACR (Czech Science Foundation) post-doctoral grant GP14-27885P.
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Інститут математики НАН України
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Twistor Geometry of Null Foliations in Complex Euclidean Space
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spellingShingle Twistor Geometry of Null Foliations in Complex Euclidean Space
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title Twistor Geometry of Null Foliations in Complex Euclidean Space
title_full Twistor Geometry of Null Foliations in Complex Euclidean Space
title_fullStr Twistor Geometry of Null Foliations in Complex Euclidean Space
title_full_unstemmed Twistor Geometry of Null Foliations in Complex Euclidean Space
title_short Twistor Geometry of Null Foliations in Complex Euclidean Space
title_sort twistor geometry of null foliations in complex euclidean space
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