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Twistor lines on algebraic surfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2019-01-03 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We give quantitative and qualitative results on the family of surfaces in CP3\mathbb{CP}^3 containing finitely many twistor lines. We start by analyzing the ideal sheaf of a finite set of disjoint lines EE. We prove that its general element is a smooth surface containing EE and no other line. Afterwards we prove that twistor lines are Zariski dense in the Grassmannian Gr(2,4)Gr(2,4). Then, for any degree d4d\ge 4, we give lower bounds on the maximum number of twistor lines contained in a degree dd surface. The smooth and singular cases are studied as well as the jj-invariant one.

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@article{arxiv.1802.06697,
  title  = {Twistor lines on algebraic surfaces},
  author = {Amedeo Altavilla and Edoardo Ballico},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.06697},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

We removed the last section, slightly changed the title and reorganized the proofs

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