Osculating behavior of the Kummer surface in P^5

DOI10.1007/S40879-017-0191-ZMaRDI QIDQ1746641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emilia Mezzetti

Publication date 25 April 2018

Published in European Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01913

zbMATH Keywords

Kummer surfaceLaplace equationosculating spacesecond fundamental form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special surfaces (14J25) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05) Projective differential geometry (53A20)

Abstract: In an article of 1967 W. Edge gave a description of some beautiful geometric properties of the Kummer surface complete intersection of three quadrics in $mathbb{P}^5$. Working on it, R. Dye proved that all its osculating spaces have dimension less than the expected 5. Here we discuss these results, also at the light of some recent result about varieties with hypo-osculating behaviour.

Review text

A theorem of \textit{R. H. Dye} [Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 35, No. 3, 437--447 (1992; Zbl 0742.51020)], based on a classical example by W.L. Edge, proves that smooth Kummer surfaces \(S\) which are complete intersection of three quadrics in \(\mathbb P^5\) have the following differential properties: the osculating space at a general point of \(S\) has dimension \(4\), smaller than the expected value. In classical language, \(S\) satisfies one Laplace equation of order \(3\). This behavior is quite peculiar for surfaces in high dimensional projective spaces. It is typical for ruled surfaces, but it cannot hold when \(S\) is smooth, not uniruled, and the degree of \(S\) is large enough. The author describes a proof of Dye's theorem in terms of properties of the second fundamental form. The author also describes how Dye's example fits into the (partially known) classification of surfaces satisfying Laplace equations.

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