The twistor space of the conformal six sphere and vector bundles on quadrics
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instance of: scholarly article
title: The twistor space of the conformal six sphere and vector bundles on quadrics
zbMATH Open document ID: 0856.32020
DOI: 10.1016/0393-0440(95)00036-4
author: M. J. Slupinski
published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics
publication date: 1996-09-03T00:00:00Z
review text: The Penrose transform establishes a correspondence between the conformal geometry of the standard 4-sphere \(S^4\) and the holomorphic geometry of projective lines on \(\mathbb{P}^3 (\mathbb{C})\). The twistor space construction can be generalized to any even-dimensional, oriented manifold equipped with a conformal structure. Here the author describes the twistor fibration \(\tau : Q_6 \to S^6\) from the smooth quadric hypersurface \(Q_6\) of \(\mathbb{P}^7 (\mathbb{C})\) to the 6-sphere. The reader may enjoy the nice description given here of the geometry of complex planes in \(Q_6\) in terms of Clifford algebras and spinors. The application given here to vector bundles on hyperquadrics, i.e. the triviality of any holomorphic vector bundle \(E\) on a smooth hyperquadric \(Q_t \subset \mathbb{P}^{t + 1}\), \(t \geq 6\), such that \(E |H\) is trivial for some complex plane \(H \subset Q_t\) seems to be known to the specialists (see e.g. the proof of Proposition 2 in the reviewer's paper Ann. Univ. Ferrara, Nuova Ser., Sez. VII 27, 135-146 (1981; Zbl 0495.14008)] and many related interesting results are contained in papers by G. Ottaviani.
reviewed by: E. Ballico
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 32L25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53A30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14F05
zbMATH DE Number: 923742
zbMATH Keywords: twistor space
zbMATH Keywords: twistor fibration
zbMATH Keywords: hyperquadric
zbMATH Keywords: 6-dimensional sphere
zbMATH Keywords: Penrose transform
zbMATH Keywords: conformal geometry
zbMATH Keywords: Clifford algebras
zbMATH Keywords: spinors
zbMATH Keywords: vector bundles on hyperquadrics
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