Rigidity of certain admissible pairs of rational homogeneous spaces of Picard number 1 which are not of the subdiagram type (Q2010445)

Let \(X_0\) and \(X\) be rational homogeneous spaces of Picard number one, and let \(i: X_0 \hookrightarrow X\) be an embedding that is equivariant with respect to the homomorphism \(\mbox{Aut}_0 (X_0) \rightarrow \mbox{Aut}_0 (X)\). One says that \((X_0, X, i)\) is an admissible pair if \(i_* : H_2(X_0, \mathbb Z) \rightarrow H_2(X, \mathbb Z)\) is an isomorphism and the generator \(\mathcal O_X(1)\) of \(\mbox{Pic}(X)\) defines an embedding \(\rho: X \hookrightarrow \mathbb P^N\) such that \(\rho \circ i\) embeds \(X_0\) as a linear section of \(X\). \newline Furthermore consider the total variety of minimal rational tangents \(\mathcal C(X) \rightarrow X\) on the rational homogeneous space \(X\). Given a connected open analytic subset \(W \subset X\) and a submanifold \(S \subset W\), the manifold \(S\) inherits a sub-VMRT structure \(\mathcal C(S)\) by considering the intersection \(\mathcal C_x (X) \cap \mathbb P T_x(S)\) for all \(x \in S\). One says that this sub-VRMT structure is modelled on the admissible pair \((X_0, X)\) if for every point \(x \in S\) there exists a local trivialisation on some open set \(x \in U \subset S\) that trivialises \(\mathcal C(X)\) and induces a local isomorphism between \(\mathcal C(S)|_U\) and \(U \times \mathcal C_0 (X_0)\). An admissible pair \((X_0, X)\) of rational homogeneous spaces of Picard number one is said to be rigid if for any connected open analytic subset \(W \subset X\) and any complex submanifold \(S \subset W\) inheriting a sub-VMRT structure that is modelled on \((X_0, X)\) is an open subset of \(\gamma(X_0) \subset X\) for some automorphism \(\gamma \in \mbox{Aut} (X)\). \newline In his recent work with \textit{Y. Zhang} [J. Differ. Geom. 112, No. 2, 263--345 (2019; Zbl 1443.14043)], the author showed the rigidity of admissible pairs \((X_0, X)\) of the subdiagram type when \(X_0\) is not linear. In this paper he turns to the remaining case of admissible pairs \((X_0, X)\) not of the subdiagram type of nonlinear Hermitian irreducible symmetric spaces such that \((X_0, X)\) is nondegerate for substructures. By enhancing the arguments from the earlier paper, he obtains sufficient conditions for the rigidity of the pair \((X_0, X)\). He then shows how to apply the technical main theorem in the case of the standard embedding of the Lagrangian Grassmannian \(G^{III}(n,n)\) into the Grassmannian \(G(n,n)\). The case \((X_0, X) = (Q^m, Q^n)\) of smooth quadrics is also considered, under the additional assumption that the germ of the sub-VMRT structure is linearly saturated.