Duality and integrability on contact Fano manifolds (Q612862)

Let \(G\) be a simple Lie group with its adjoint action on \(\mathbb P(\mathfrak g)\), where \(\mathfrak g\) is the Lie algebra of \(G\). The unique closed orbit \(X\) has a natural contact structure and is called the adjoint variety of \(G\). A famous conjecture of LeBrun and Salomon claims that any Fano contact manifold \(X\) is the adjoint variety of some simple Lie group \(G\). In the paper under review the author uses the geometry of contact lines to recover parts of the structure that a contact Fano manifold \(X\) has if it is an adjoint variety, i.e. a Killing form, Lie algebra grading and parts of a Lie bracket. He shows that the locus \(D_x \subset X\) of points which can be joined to \(x\) with at most two contact lines is a divisor. Thus it is possible to define two rational maps on \(X\), one by looking at the linear system \(\langle D_x \rangle\) defined by the divisors, the other by \(x \mapsto D_x\). The author shows that the two rational maps are in fact regular and dual to each other. The relevance of this result is that if \(X\) is the adjoint variety of a simple Lie group \(G\), then \(\langle D_x \rangle=\mathfrak g\) and the duality between the two maps is induced by the Killing form on \(\mathfrak g\). If \(D \subset X \times X\) denotes the universal family of the divisors \(D_x\), it is shown that there exists a rational map \(D \dashrightarrow X\) that maps a pair of general points \(x \in X\) and \(z \in D_x\) to the intersection of two contact lines joining \(x\) and \(z\). In particular this pair of contact lines is unique. If \(X\) is an adjoint variety, the rational map identifies to the restriction of the Lie bracket to \(D\).