Pairwise incident planes and hyperkaehler four-folds

zbMATH Open1317.14122arXiv1204.6257MaRDI QIDQ5500522FDOQ5500522

Publication date: 6 August 2015

Abstract: We address the following question: what are the cardinalities of maximal finite families of pairwise incident planes in a complex projective space? One proves easily that the span of the planes has dimension 5 or 6. Up to projectivities there is one such family spanning a 6-dimensional projective space - this is an elementary result. Maximal finite families of pairwise incident planes in a 5-dimensional projective space are considerably more misterious: they are linked to certain special (EPW) sextic hypersurfaces which have a non-trivial double cover, generically a hyperkaehler 4-fold. We prove that the cardinality of such a set cannot exceed 20. We also show that there exist such families of cardinality 16 - in fact we conjecture that 16 is the maximum.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.6257

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) (4)-folds (14J35) (n)-folds ((n>4)) (14J40) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20)

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