On the general fiber of an algebraic reduction of a compact complex manifold of algebraic codimension two (Q1425560)

The author shows that the general fiber of the algebraic reduction of a compact \(n\)-dimensional complex manifold \(Z\) is never bimeromorphically equivalent to a ruled surface of genus \(g\geq 2\). In 1965 \textit{S. Kawai} [J. Math. Soc. Japan 21, 604-616 (1969; Zbl 0192.44101)] has treated the case \(n=3\), and the general fact was conjectured in 1975 by \textit{K. Ueno} [`Classification theory of algebraic varieties and compact complex spaces' (1975; Zbl 0299.14007)]. The result is also well known in the situation where \(Z\) is bimeromorphically equivalent to a Kähler manifold. The above statement is a consequence of the following fact, which is the main result of the article: Let \(Y\) be a compact complex manifold and \(f:Z\rightarrow Y\) a surjective holomorphic map with connected fibers. If the general fiber of \(f\) is bimeromorphically equivalent to a ruled surface of genus \(g\geq 2\), then \(f\) can be factorized via a meromorphic map \(Z\rightharpoonup S\) and a surjective flat holomorphic map \(S\rightarrow Y\) with connected curves as fibers. Finally the author shows by a counterexample, the twistor space of a Hopf surface, that some proposition in the above cited paper of Kawai is not true in the general form as it is stated there.