Self-dual metrics and twenty-eight bitangents

dc.creatorHonda, Nobuhiro
dc.date2004-03-31
dc.date2006-04-19
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:36:04Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T06:36:04Z
dc.descriptionWe 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.
dc.description71 pages. V2; errors corrected. V3; 15 figures added
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403528
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403528
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/99974
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.subjectAlgebraic Geometry
dc.subject53C25; 14C05
dc.titleSelf-dual metrics and twenty-eight bitangents
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