Projectively deformable Legendrian surfaces
Abstract
Consider an immersed Legendrian surface in the five dimensional complex projective space equipped with the standard homogeneous contact structure. We introduce a class of fourth order projective Legendrian deformation called \emph{-deformation}, and give a differential geometric characterization of surfaces admitting maximum three parameter family of such deformations. Two explicit examples of maximally -deformable surfaces are constructed; the first one is given by a Legendrian map from blown up at three distinct collinear points, which is an embedding away from the -2-curve and degenerates to a point along the -2-curve. The second one is a Legendrian embedding of the degree 6 del Pezzo surface, blown up at three non-collinear points. In both cases, the Legendrian map is given by a system of cubics through the three points, which is a subsystem of the anti-canonical system.
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@article{arxiv.1107.4158,
title = {Projectively deformable Legendrian surfaces},
author = {Joe S. Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.4158},
year = {2011}
}
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33 pages