Schur quadrics, cubic surfaces and rank 2 vector bundles over the projective plane

Abstract: A cubic surface in

P^{3}

is known to contain 27 lines, out of which one can form 36 Schlafli double - sixes i.e., collections

of 12 lines such that each

l_{i}

meets only

l'_{j}, j e q i

and does not meet

l_{j}, j e q i

. In 1881 F. Schur proved that any double - six gives rise to a certain quadric

Q

, called Schur quadric which is characterized as follows: for any

i

the lines

l_{i}

and

l'_{i}

are orthogonal with respect to (the quadratic form defining)

Q

. The aim of the paper is to relate Schur's construction to the theory of vector bundles on

P^{2}

and to generalize this construction along the lines of the said theory.

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