Self-dual metrics and twenty-eight bitangents
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Self-dual metrics and twenty-eight bitangents
zbMATH Open document ID: 1129.53028
author: Nobuhiro Honda
published in: Journal of Differential Geometry
publication date: 2007-04-24T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403528
full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1175266265
review text: A current problem in differential geometry is the classification of compact simply-connected four-manifolds with self-dual metrics of positive scalar curvature. Among the known examples: the round sphere, the Fubini-Study metric on the complex projective plane and metrics constructed, independently, by \textit{Y. S. Poon} [J. Differ. Geom. 24, 97--132 (1986; Zbl 0583.53054)], \textit{C. LeBrun} [ibid. 34, 223--253 (1991; Zbl 0725.53067)], and \textit{D. Joyce} [Duke Math. J. 77, 519--552 (1995; Zbl 0855.57028)]. In the paper under review, the author succeeds to describe the moduli space of such metrics on \(3\mathbb{C}P^3\) which, in addition, admit a non-trivial flow of isometries and are not conformal to LeBrun's metric constructed out of his ``hyperbolic ansatz''. His method is working on the twistor space of \(3\mathbb{C}P^3\). Precisely, he determines the structure of the twistor space corresponding to the metrics under discussion. The difficulty is to determine the family of twistor lines for each possible candidate. During his analysis, the author uses also, surprisingly enough, a classical result in algebraic geometry: a smooth plane quartic has exactly \(28\) bitangents.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C28
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C07
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58D17
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58D27
zbMATH DE Number: 5145733
zbMATH Keywords: self-dual
zbMATH Keywords: bitangent
zbMATH Keywords: twistor space
zbMATH Keywords: projective space
zbMATH Keywords: quartic
zbMATH Keywords: singular points
reviewed by: Liviu Ornea
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W1497686825
Wikidata QID: Q115196468
DOI: 10.4310/JDG/1175266265
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