A new series of compact minitwistor spaces and Moishezon twistor spaces over them

Abstract

In recent papers math.DG/0701278 and arXiv:0705.0060, we gave explicit description of some new Moishezon twistor spaces. In this paper, developing the method in the papers much further, we explicitly give projective models of a number of new Moishezon twistor spaces, as conic bundles over some rational surfaces (called minitwistor spaces). These include the twistor spaces studied in the papers as very special cases. Our source of the result is a series of self-dual metrics with torus action constructed by D. Joyce. Actually, for arbitrary Joyce metrics and U(1)-subgroups of the torus which fixes a torus-invariant 2-sphere, we first determine the associated minitwistor spaces in explicit forms. Next by analyzing the meromorphic maps from the twistor spaces to the minitwistor spaces, we realize projective models of the twistor spaces of all Joyce metrics, as conic bundles over the minitwistor spaces. Then we prove that for any one of these minitwistor spaces, there exist Moishezon twistor spaces with only C*-action whose quotient space is the given minitwistor space. This result generates numerous Moishezon twistor spaces which cannot be found in the literature (including the author's papers), in quite explicit form.