The twistor space of the conformal six sphere and vector bundles on quadrics (Q1921969)

The Penrose transform establishes a correspondence between the conformal geometry of the standard 4-sphere \(S^4\) and the holomorphic geometry of projective lines on \(\mathbb{P}^3 (\mathbb{C})\). The twistor space construction can be generalized to any even-dimensional, oriented manifold equipped with a conformal structure. Here the author describes the twistor fibration \(\tau : Q_6 \to S^6\) from the smooth quadric hypersurface \(Q_6\) of \(\mathbb{P}^7 (\mathbb{C})\) to the 6-sphere. The reader may enjoy the nice description given here of the geometry of complex planes in \(Q_6\) in terms of Clifford algebras and spinors. The application given here to vector bundles on hyperquadrics, i.e. the triviality of any holomorphic vector bundle \(E\) on a smooth hyperquadric \(Q_t \subset \mathbb{P}^{t + 1}\), \(t \geq 6\), such that \(E |H\) is trivial for some complex plane \(H \subset Q_t\) seems to be known to the specialists (see e.g. the proof of Proposition 2 in the reviewer's paper Ann. Univ. Ferrara, Nuova Ser., Sez. VII 27, 135-146 (1981; Zbl 0495.14008)] and many related interesting results are contained in papers by G. Ottaviani.