Abstract:
We find the topological types of biquadrics (complete intersections
of two real four-dimensional quadrics). The rigid isotopy classes
of real three-dimensional biquadrics were described long ago:
there are nine such classes. We find the correspondence between
the topological types of real biquadrics and their rigid isotopy classes,
and show that only two rigid isotopy classes have the same topological
type. One of these classes consists of real $\operatorname{GM}$-varieties
and the other contains no $\operatorname{GM}$-varieties. We also study
the sets of real lines on real biquadrics.