Congruences of lines in P^5, quadratic normality, and completely exceptional Monge-Ampère equations

DOI10.1007/S10711-007-9228-7MaRDI QIDQ2481657zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pietro De Poi, Emilia Mezzetti

Publication date 14 April 2008

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5110

zbMATH Keywords

completely exceptional Monge-Ampère equationscongruences of linesFano fourfoldslifting problemquadratic normality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fano varieties (14J45) Low codimension problems in algebraic geometry (14M07) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Varieties of low degree (14N25) Differential line geometry (53A25)

Abstract: The existence is proved of two new families of locally Cohen-Macaulay sextic threefolds in $mathbb{P}^5$, which are not quadratically normal. These threefolds arise naturally in the realm of first order congruences of lines as focal loci and in the study of the completely exceptional Monge-Amp`ere equations. One of these families comes from a smooth congruence of multidegree $(1,3,3)$ which is a smooth Fano fourfold of index two and genus 9.

Review text

Let \(X\) be the degeneracy locus of a general morphism \(\phi: \mathcal{O}^{4}_{\mathbb P^5} \to \Omega_{\mathbb P^5}(2)\). Such degeneracy locus is a three dimensional scroll over a cubic surface in \(\mathbb P^3\) and it is called \textit{Palatini scroll}. It turns out that such threefold \(X\) is not quadratically normal, that is, \(h^{1}({\mathcal I}_{X}(2))\neq 0\). C. Peskine conjectured that such an \(X\) is the only nonsingular threefold in \(\mathbb P^5\) with this property. In the paper under review the authors, using congruences of lines, construct two families of threefolds in \(\mathbb P^5\) which are not quadratically normal. Both examples are singular, nonsingular in codimension \(1\), of degree \(6\) and sectional genus \(1\). A threefold of the first family was constructed as focal loci of some first order congruences of lines in \(\mathbb P^5\). The second family comes from the congruences which are associated to the completely exceptional Monge-Ampère system of differential equations, which turn out to be a smooth congruence of multidegree \((1,3,3)\) which is a Fano manifolds of index two and genus \(9\). As a byproduct of their results the authors get another interpretation of the Fano fourfold of index two and genus \(9\) which was already considered by \textit{S. Mukai} [in: Algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, in Honor of Masayoshi Nagata, Vol. I, 357--377 (1988; Zbl 0701.14044)]. They show that on such Fano fourfold there is a rank \(2\) vector bundle which embeds the variety in \({\mathbb G}(1,5)\). The connection between congruences of lines of order one and the lifting problem is also discussed.

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