Twistor geometry of null foliations in complex Euclidean space
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Abstract: We give a detailed account of the geometric correspondence between a smooth complex projective quadric hypersurface of dimension , and its twistor space , defined to be the space of all linear subspaces of maximal dimension of . Viewing complex Euclidean space as a dense open subset of , we show how local foliations tangent to certain integrable holomorphic totally null distributions of maximal rank on can be constructed in terms of complex submanifolds of . The construction is illustrated by means of two examples, one involving conformal Killing spinors, the other, conformal Killing-Yano -forms. We focus on the odd-dimensional case, and we treat the even-dimensional case only tangentially for comparison.
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