Self-dual metrics and twenty-eight bitangents

DOI10.4310/JDG/1175266265MaRDI QIDQ877553zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nobuhiro Honda

Publication date 24 April 2007

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403528, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1175266265

zbMATH Keywords

projective spacesingular pointsquarticself-dualtwistor spacebitangent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

Abstract: We consider self-dual metrics on 3CP^2 of positive scalar curvature admitting a non-trivial Killing field, but which is not conformally isometric to LeBrun's metrics. Firstly, we determine defining equations of the twistor spaces of such self-dual metrics. Next we prove that conversely, the complex threefolds defined by the equations always become twistor spaces of self-dual metrics on 3CP^2 of the above kind. As a corollary, we determine a global structure of the moduli spaces of these self-dual metrics; namely we show that the moduli space is non-empty and isomorphic to R^3/G, where G is an involution of R^3 having one-dimensional fixed locus. Combined with works of LeBrun, this settles a moduli problem of self-dual metrics on 3CP^2 of positive scalar curvature admitting a non-trivial Killing field. In our proof, a key role is played by a classical result in algebraic geometry that a smooth plane quartic always possesses twenty-eight bitangents.

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