On singular varieties with ample tangent bundle (Q2367450)

It is well known that a smooth projective variety \(V\) of dimension \(n\) over an algebraically closed field \(K\) with ample tangent bundle \(TV\) is isomorphic to the \(n\)-dimensional projective space \(\mathbb{P}_ n\). Moreover in the singular case for \(\text{char}(K)>0\) a lot of examples are known with locally free \(TV\) whereas in characteristic zero it is conjectured that such examples do not exist. In the paper under review singular varieties in positive characteristic are constructed with locally free and ample tangent bundle. More precisely in the first part of the paper a classification of all plane curves \(C\) and \(TC={\mathcal O}_ C(1)\) such that \(TC\) is a subbundle of \(T\mathbb{P}_ 2| C\) is given (including explicit equations). Also it is shown that the tangent bundle of certain hypersurfaces of the projective space is ample and generated by global sections, assuming \(\text{char}(K)=2\). Finally in the second part a classification of normal projective singular surfaces with ample tangent bundle is achieved: these are just the quadratic cones in characteristic two.