On fibre space structures of a projective irreducible symplectic manifold (Q1292676)

A simply connected compact Kähler manifold \(X\) is called irreducible symplectic if the vector space \(H^0(X,\Omega^2_X)\) of holomorphic 2-forms is spanned by a nowhere degenerate 2-form. An irreducible symplectic complex surface is a \(K3\)-surface. As the main result of the article, a \(2n\)-dimensional projective irreducible symplectic manifold \(X\) admits only very special connected fibrations \(X\to B\) onto a normal projective variety \(B\), \(0< \dim B<\dim X\). The base space \(B\) has to be \(n\)-dimensional and has at most \(\mathbb{Q}\)-factorial log-terminal singularities. Moreover it is a Fano variety with Picard number equal to one. The degeneration set of the fibration is at least of codimension 2 in \(X\). The general fiber has trivial canonical bundle and admits some finite unramified covering which is an abelian variety. In the special case \(n=2\) the fibering is non-degenerate and the general fiber is already an abelian surface. Of main importance for the proof are results of \textit{A. Beauville} [J. Differ. Geom. 18, 755-782 (1983; Zbl 0537.53056)] and of \textit{A. Fujiki} [Algebraic geometry, Proc. Symp., Sendai/Jap. 1985, Adv. Stud. Pure Math. 10, 105-165 (1987; Zbl 0654.53065)] about the existence of special non-degenerate quadratic forms on \(H^2(X,\mathbb{Z})\).