{"title":"\\(F_4\\) and desmic quartic surfaces","authors":"Laurent Manivel","doi":"10.1007/s10455-026-10028-5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The desmic pencil of quartic surfaces is part of a beautiful, but mostly forgotten chapter of the classical theory of algebraic surfaces: it is the only non-degenerate pencil of quartic surfaces in <span>\\({\\mathbb {P}}^3\\)</span> containing at least three completely reducible members. We observe in this note that it is closely related to the Weyl group of the root system <span>\\(F_4\\)</span>, and can be recovered from a series of symmetric spaces deduced from the exceptional Lie algebras. We discuss the main properties of the pencil from this Lie theoretic point of view.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8268,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10455-026-10028-5","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The desmic pencil of quartic surfaces is part of a beautiful, but mostly forgotten chapter of the classical theory of algebraic surfaces: it is the only non-degenerate pencil of quartic surfaces in \({\mathbb {P}}^3\) containing at least three completely reducible members. We observe in this note that it is closely related to the Weyl group of the root system \(F_4\), and can be recovered from a series of symmetric spaces deduced from the exceptional Lie algebras. We discuss the main properties of the pencil from this Lie theoretic point of view.
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This journal examines global problems of geometry and analysis as well as the interactions between these fields and their application to problems of theoretical physics. It contributes to an enlargement of the international exchange of research results in the field.
The areas covered in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry include: global analysis, differential geometry, complex manifolds and related results from complex analysis and algebraic geometry, Lie groups, Lie transformation groups and harmonic analysis, variational calculus, applications of differential geometry and global analysis to problems of theoretical physics.