Open AccessOn the structure of Pedersen-Poon twistor spaces
Author(s) -
Nobuhiro Honda
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
mathematica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.553
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1903-1807
pISSN - 0025-5521
DOI - 10.7146/math.scand.a-14385
Subject(s) - mathematics , twistor theory , pencil (optics) , torus , pure mathematics , equivariant map , invariant (physics) , twistor space , conjecture , geometry , mathematical physics , mechanical engineering , engineering
We study algebro-geometric properties of certain twistor spaces over $n\boldsymbol{CP}^2$ with two dimensional torus actions, whose existence was proved by Pedersen and Poon. We show that they have a pencil whose general members are non-singular toric surface, and completely determine the structure of the reducible members of the pencil, which are also toric surfaces. In the course of our proof, we describe behaviors of the above pencil under equivariant smoothing. Relation between the weighted dual graphs of the toric surfaces in the pencil and similar invariant of the above torus action on $n\boldsymbol{CP}^2$ is also determined.