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Projectively deformable Legendrian surfaces

Differential Geometry 2011-07-22 v1

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{Ψ\,\Psi-deformation}, and give a differential geometric characterization of surfaces admitting maximum three parameter family of such deformations. Two explicit examples of maximally Ψ\, \Psi-deformable surfaces are constructed; the first one is given by a Legendrian map from \PP2\, \PP^2 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, \PP2\, \PP^2 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

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