On a class of first order congruences of lines

Abstract

We study a class of new examples of congruences of lines of order one, i.e. the congruences associated to the completely exceptional Monge-Ampère equations. We prove that they are in general not linear, and that through a general point of the focal locus there passes a planar pencil of lines of the congruence. In particular, the completely exceptional Monge-Ampère equations are of Temple type.