Geometry of webs of algebraic curves (Q516146)

Let \(X\) be a complex projective variety. A family of curves \(W\) covering \(X\) is called a web if for a general point \(x \in X\) there exist only finitely many members of the family passing through \(x\). This paper concerns the question under which conditions the local web geometry determines the global geometry of \(X\). More precisely, let \(X'\) be another projective variety with a web of curves \(W'\), and suppose that there exists a biholomorphic map \(\varphi: U \rightarrow U'\) between connected Euclidean open subsets \(U \subset X\) and \(U' \subset X'\) inducing a bijection between the (germs of) members of \(W\) in \(U\) and \(W'\) in \(U'\). When is \(\varphi\) induced by a generically finite algebraic correspondence between \(X\) and \(X'\)? The author proves that this is always the case if the webs are pairwise nonintegrable and bracket-generating, two technical but essentially necessary conditions. \newline The author gives a number of situations where the two technical conditions can be easily verified: let \(X \subset \mathbb P^N\) (resp. \(X' \subset \mathbb P^{N'}\)) be a Fano manifold with Picard number one such that the lines contained in \(X\) (resp. \(X'\)) form a web. If there is a biholomorphism \(\varphi\) as above, then there exists even a biholomorphic map \(\Phi: X \rightarrow X'\) such that \(\varphi=\Phi|_U\). As an application one obtains that a finite map \(f: X \rightarrow X'\) between two such Fano manifolds is always an isomorphism. All these statements are optimal, as shown by some interesting examples given in the paper.