Ordinary varieties with trivial canonical bundle are not uniruled (Q2049967)

Let \(X\) be a smooth projective variety defined over a perfect field \(k\). Let us assume that the canonical divisor \(K_X\) is numerically trivial. It is well known that if \(\mathrm{char} \, k=0\) then \(X\) is non-uniruled and the tangent bundle of \(X\) is slope semistable (for any ample polarization). These results are important for the Beauville-Bogomolov decomposition theorem. However, both of them fail in case \(k\) has positive characteristic. The authors prove that if \(\mathrm{char} \, k=p>0\) and \(X\) is globally \(F\)-split then it is not geometrically uniruled. In this case, it follows from \textit{A. Langer}'s results in [Adv. Math. 277, 1--23 (2015; Zbl 1348.14070)] that if \(p\ge (n-1)(n-2)\), where \(n\) is the dimension of \(X\), then the tangent bundle is strongly semistable (for any ample polarization). Unfortunately, the authors forgot to add the assumption on \(p\) in Corollaries 1.5 and 5.7. The authors prove their result also in case of some mildly singular varieties. The proofs depend on fact that uniruled varieties have vanishing top Witt vector (and also \(p\)-adic) cohomology. The main idea of the proof is then studying the maximal rationally chain connected fibration of \(X\).