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A note on Lagrangian submanifolds of twistor spaces and their relation to superminimal surfaces

Differential Geometry 2020-01-22 v2

Abstract

In this paper a bijective correspondence between superminimal surfaces of an oriented Riemannian 44-manifold and particular Lagrangian submanifolds of the twistor space over the 44-manifold is proven. More explicitly, for every superminimal surface a submanifold of the twistor space is constructed which is Lagrangian for all the natural almost Hermitian structures on the twistor space. The twistor fibration restricted to the constructed Lagrangian gives a circle bundle over the superminimal surface. Conversely, if a submanifold of the twistor space is Lagrangian for all the natural almost Hermitian structures, then the Lagrangian projects to a superminimal surface and is is contained in the Lagrangian constructed from this surface. In particular this produces many Lagrangian submanifolds of the twistor spaces CP3\mathbb{C} P^3 and F1,2(C3)\mathbb{F}_{1,2}(\mathbb{C}^3) with respect to both the K\"{a}hler structure as well as the nearly K\"{a}hler structure. Moreover, it is shown that these Lagrangian submanifolds are minimal submanifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1910.09033,
  title  = {A note on Lagrangian submanifolds of twistor spaces and their relation to superminimal surfaces},
  author = {Reinier Storm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.09033},
  year   = {2020}
}