Holomorphic Cartan geometries, Calabi-Yau manifolds and rational curves (Q846381)

Let \(G\) be a complex Lie group with a closed subgroup \(H\). A Cartan geometry of type \(G/H\) on a compact Kähler manifold \(M\) is a holomorphic \(H\)-bundle over \(M\) with a holomorphic \(\mathfrak{g}\)-valued \(1\)-form \(\theta\) on it satisfying certain conditions. The notion is modeled on the quotient bundle \(G\to G/H\) with \(\theta=g^{-1}dg\) known as the tautological Cartan geometry. McKay conjectured recently that the only Calabi-Yau manifolds admitting a Cartan geometry are those étale covered by a complex torus. The main result of this note is a proof of this conjecture via the Bogomolov inequality for semistable sheaves. In addition, the authors show that a Cartan geometry on a projective and rationally connected \(M\) is holomorphically isomorphic to the tautological one.