Flag bundles on Fano manifolds (Q304874)

In [Math. Ann. 289, No. 1, 169--187 (1991; Zbl 0729.14032)], \textit{F. Campana} and \textit{T. Peternell} conjectured that every Fano manifold with nef tangent bundle is a rational homogeneous manifold. To attack this conjecture, the authors of the paper under review consider a proper dominant family \(p : \mathcal{U} \rightarrow \mathcal{M}\) of minimal rational curves in \(X\) with the evaluation morphism \(q : \mathcal{U} \rightarrow X\). Substitute \(X\) by \(\mathcal{U}\) if \(\mathcal{U}\) is again a Fano manifold, and continue. If this procedure is carried out until we get a Fano manifold in which all the families of minimal rational curves are \(\mathbb{P}^1\)-bundles, then the original variety \(X\) would be a rational homogenous manifold. In this paper, the authors show an interesting case of this strategy: if \(p\) is unsplit, \(q\) is smooth, and \(q^{-1}(x)\) is a rational homogeneous manifold for every \(x \in X\), then \(X\) is a rational homogeneous manifold. For this purpose, they study minimal sections on flag bundles over the projective line as a `rational curve oriented' interpretation of Grothendieck's theorem on principal \(G\)-bundles.