Twistor geometry of null foliations in complex Euclidean space

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Abstract: We give a detailed account of the geometric correspondence between a smooth complex projective quadric hypersurface mathcalQn of dimension ngeq3, and its twistor space mathbbPT, defined to be the space of all linear subspaces of maximal dimension of mathcalQn. Viewing complex Euclidean space mathbbCEn as a dense open subset of mathcalQn, we show how local foliations tangent to certain integrable holomorphic totally null distributions of maximal rank on mathbbCEn can be constructed in terms of complex submanifolds of mathbbPT. The construction is illustrated by means of two examples, one involving conformal Killing spinors, the other, conformal Killing-Yano 2-forms. We focus on the odd-dimensional case, and we treat the even-dimensional case only tangentially for comparison.



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