Minitwistor spaces, Severi varieties, and Einstein-Weyl structure

DOI10.1007/S10455-010-9235-ZMaRDI QIDQ629926zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nobuhiro Honda, Fuminori Nakata

Publication date 10 March 2011

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2264

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein-Weyl structureminitwistor spacenodal rational curvePenrose correspondenceSeveri varietytwistor space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau theory (complex-analytic aspects) (32Q25) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28)

Abstract: In this paper we show that the space of nodal rational curves, which is so called a Severi variety (of rational curves), on any non-singular projective surface is always equipped with a natural Einstein-Weyl structure, if the space is 3-dimensional. This is a generalization of the Einstein-Weyl structure on the space of smooth rational curves on a complex surface, given by N.Hitchin. As geometric objects naturally associated to Einstein-Weyl structure, we investigate null surfaces and geodesics on the Severi varieties. Also we see that if the projective surface has an appropriate real structure, then the real locus of the Severi variety becomes a positive definite Einstein-Weyl manifold. Moreover we construct various explicit examples of rational surfaces having 3-dimensional Severi varieties of rational curves.

Review text

Consider a non-singular complex projective surface \(Z\) and a smooth rational curve \(Y\subset Z\). The self-intersection number of \(Y\) is 2 if and only if the deformations of \(Y\) inside \(Z\) are unobstructed and the deformation space is 3-dimensional. In this case, \textit{N. J. Hitchin} [Lect. Notes Math. 970, 79--99 (1982; Zbl 0507.53025)] proved that the deformation space admits an Einstein-Weyl structure (in the holomorphic category). In the present paper, the authors develop a similar theory for the Severi variety of rational curves, i.e., the space of nodal (instead of smooth) rational curves on a non-singular complex projective surface. If the surface has an appropriate real structure, then the real locus of the Severi variety turns out to be a positive definite Einstein-Weyl manifold.

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