On deformations of the surfaces of bitangents to smooth quartic surfaces in ${\text{mP}}^3$

We prove that the surface $S(X)$ of bitangent lines of a general smooth quartic surface $X$ in ${\text{mP}}^3$ has unobstructed deformations of dimension $20=h^1(S(X),T_{S(X)})$. In addition, we show that the space of infinitesimal embedded deformations of $X$ injects into the one of $S(X)$. Finally we prove that there is a natural birational map from the 20–dimensional moduli space of (polarised) double coverings of EPW–sextics to the moduli space of regular surfaces $S$ with $p_g=45$ and $K_S^2=360$ polarised with a very ample line bundle $H$ such that $H^2=40$, $h^0(S,H)=6$: the map sends a double covering of a EPW–sextic in ${\text{mP}}^5$ to the surface of double points of the EPW–sextic.