Rationality of rationally connected threefolds admitting non-isomorphic endomorphisms (Q2844840)

Let \(X\) be a complex projective manifold that admits an endomorphism, that is a finite morphism \(f: X \rightarrow X\) of degree at least two. If \(X\) is rationally connected and has Picard number one a classical conjecture claims that \(X\) is a projective space. This conjecture is known in dimension up to three but completely open in higher dimension. In the paper under review the author considers the more general problem whether a rationally connected threefold admitting an endomorphism is always rational. He gives a positive answer for smooth Fano threefolds and for certain terminal threefolds that are Mori fibre spaces. In general one would like to reduce the problem to Mori fibre spaces by running a MMP NEWLINE\[NEWLINE X \dashrightarrow X' NEWLINE\]NEWLINE such that \(f\) descends to an endomorphism \(f': X' \rightarrow X'\). While the existence of such an \(f\)-equivariant MMP is not known in general the author establishes this property under the assumption that the anticanonical divisor \(-K_X\) is big.