Holomorphic projective connections on compact complex threefolds (Q6044859)

The authors study holomorphic projective connections on higher-dimensional compact complex manifolds. For the case of a compact Kähler-Einstein manifold \(M\) of complex dimension at least two and endowed with a holomorphic projective connection, the authors prove that either: (i) \(M\) is the complex projective space \(\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^n\) with its standard flat projective connection; (ii) \(M\) is a quotient of the complex hyperbolic space \(\mathbb{H}^n_{\mathbb{C}}\) by a discrete subgroup in \(\mathrm{SU}(n,1)\) and endowed with its induced standard flat projective connection; or (iii) \(M\) is an étale quotient of a compact complex \(n\)-torus endowed with the holomorphic projective connection that is induced by a translation invariant holomorphic torsion free affine connection on the universal cover \(\mathbb{C}^n\). The proof of this result builds on work of \textit{S. Kobayashi} and \textit{T. Ochiai} in [Math. Ann. 249, 75--94 (1980; Zbl 0412.32026); Math. Ann. 255, 519--521 (1981; Zbl 0439.32011)]. As an application of their main result, together with additional results that are established by the authors in the present work and combined with a classification result of \textit{P. Jahnke} and \textit{I. Radloff} [Math. Ann. 329, No. 3, 379--400 (2004; Zbl 1074.14035)], the authors deduce that a holomorphic projective connection on a complex projective threefold is either flat, or it is an étale quotient of a translation invariant holomorphic projective connection on an abelian threefold. Finally, the authors state conjectures that are motivated by their results.