Moduli spaces of quadratic complexes and their singular surfaces

Abstract

We construct the coarse moduli space $\cM_{qc}(\sigma)$ of quadratic line complexes with a fixed Segre symbol $\sigma$ as well as the moduli space $\cM_{ss}(\sigma)$ of the corresponding singular surfaces. We show that the map associating to a quadratic line complex its singular surface induces a morphism $\pi: \cM_{qc}(\sigma) \ra \cM_{ss}(\sigma)$. Finally we deduce that the varieties of cosingular quadratic line complexes are almost always curves.