Twistor topology of the Fermat cubic (Q401239)

The twistor space of a 4-dimensional oriented space \(M\) parametrizes the compatible complex structure of the tangent space at each point. It becomes a 2-sphere bundle over \(M\) with the tautologically defined almost complex structure. The first example is the quotient of the Hopf bundle \(\pi : {\mathbb{CP}}^3\longrightarrow S^4\). The fibers of \(\pi\) are projective lines, called twister lines and the hypersurfaces which are transversal to them correspond to complex structures on \(S^4\) compatible with the canonical metric. The result is local and since \(S^4\) does not admit a global almost complex structure, it is natural to look at surfaces which contain some fibers and may have singularities. In [Math. Ann. 343, No. 4, 853--899 (2009; Zbl 1167.32017)] \textit{S. Salamon} and \textit{J. Viaclovsky} considered the case of quadratic surfaces and their discriminant locus. The present paper studies the cubic -- where by the classical result there are exactly 27 projective lines. The authors establish the number and position of the possible twister lines among them and also provide some information about the discriminant locus, which is partly based on Mathematica code.