Twistor lines on Nagata threefold

(3)-folds (14J30) Twistor theory, double fibrations (complex-analytic aspects) (32L25) Kähler manifolds (32Q15) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28)

Abstract: We give an explicit description of rational curves in the product of three copies of complex projective lines, which are transformed into twistor lines in M. Nagata's example of non-projective complete algebraic variety, viewed as the twistor space of Eguchi-Hanson metric. In particular, we show that there exist two families of such curves and both of them are parameterized by mutually diffeomorphic, connected real 4-dimensional manifolds. We also give a relationship between these two families through a birational transformation naturally associated to the Nagata's example.

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The article with a Nagata threefold, which is the first known example of a non-projective complete algebraic variety. After the discovery of this example in 1958, Fujiki (in 1994) described it as a compactification of the twistor space of the Eguchi-Hanson metric on the bundle \(T^*P^1\) over \(P^1\). A Nagata threefold is obtained in quite easy way from \(P^1\times P^1\times P^1\). Thus it is reasonable to ask, which curves in this triple product are transformed into twistor lines. The author uses very clear and explicit computation to give a precise answer to this question. The result is very concrete: the curves are given by explicit formulae, not in an abstract way. The computations are well explained, mostly elementary and easy to follow. This is a well written paper.

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