On ample and spanned rank-3 bundles with low Chern numbers (Q753881)

The paper contains a proof of the following result: Theorem. Let \(n=3k+2\) with \(k\geq 0\) be an integer. Let X be a complex smooth complete manifold, \(\dim (X)=n\) and E a rank-3 vector bundle on X. Assume that E is ample and spanned by its global sections; set \(c_ i:=c_ i(E)\). Then: \(c_ 2c^ k_ 3\geq 3\); \(c^ 2_ 1c^ k_ 3\geq 9\) and if we have equality either in (1) or in (2) then \(X\cong {\mathbb{P}}^ n\) and \(E\cong 3{\mathcal O}_ X(1).\) It should be noted that the essential part of the proof deals with the case \(k=0\).