Kähler manifolds with geodesic holomorphic gradients (Q1998670)

In this work, the authors consider the geodesic-gradient Kähler triples \((M,g,\tau)\) which, by definition, consist of a compact Kähler manifold \((M,g)\) and a nonconstant real-valued function \(\tau\) on \(M\) such that the \(g\)-gradient of \(\tau\) is real-holomorphic and its integral curves are reparametrized geodesics. In the paper, the authors discuss a variety of compact examples of geodesic-gradient Kähler triples and discuss some general properties of the maximum and minimum level set \(\Sigma^\pm\) of \(\tau\) in Theorem 11.1. The main result of the paper is a dichotomy theorem on such manifolds where it is shown that either such a manifold satisfies an additional integrability condition, or through every zero of the real-holomorphic geodesic gradient there passes an uncountable family of totally geodesic, holomorphically immersed complex projective spaces, each carrying a fixed multiple of the Fubini-Study metric. They also obtain a classification result for the case where the integrability condition holds, implying that the manifold must then be biholomorphically isometric to a bundle of complex projective spaces with a bundle-like metric.