Twistor geometry of null foliations in complex Euclidean space

Abstract: We give a detailed account of the geometric correspondence between a smooth complex projective quadric hypersurface

m a t h c a l Q^{n}

of dimension

n g e q 3

, and its twistor space

m a t h b b P T

, defined to be the space of all linear subspaces of maximal dimension of

m a t h c a l Q^{n}

. Viewing complex Euclidean space

m a t h b b {C E}^{n}

as a dense open subset of

m a t h c a l Q^{n}

, we show how local foliations tangent to certain integrable holomorphic totally null distributions of maximal rank on

m a t h b b {C E}^{n}

can be constructed in terms of complex submanifolds of

m a t h b b P T

. 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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06938

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