On deformations of the surfaces of bitangents to smooth quartic surfaces in \mP^3

Authors Ciro Ciliberto, Alessandro Verra, Francesco Zucconi

Publication date 28 May 2023

Abstract: We prove that the surface

S (X)

of bitangent lines of a general smooth quartic surface

X

in

m P^{3}

has unobstructed deformations of dimension

20 = h^{1} (S (X), T_{S (X)})

. In addition, we show that the space of infinitesimal embedded deformations of

X

injects into the one of

S (X)

. Finally we prove that there is a natural birational map from the 20--dimensional moduli space of (polarised) double coverings of EPW--sextics to the moduli space of regular surfaces

S

with

p_{g} = 45

and

K_{S}^{2} = 360

polarised with a very ample line bundle

H

such that

H^{2} = 40

,

h^{0} (S, H) = 6

: the map sends a double covering of a EPW--sextic in

m P^{5}

to the surface of double points of the EPW--sextic.

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