Every connected sum of lens spaces is a real component of a uniruled algebraic variety (Q818292)

The main result of the paper is that a connected sum of lens spaces is always diffeomorphic to a connected component of a real algebraic uniruled \(3\)-manifold. This answers in the affirmative a conjecture by \textit{J. Kollár} [in: Taniguchi conference on mathematics Nara '98. Tokyo: Mathematical Society of Japan. Adv. Stud. Pure Math. 31, 127--145 (2001; Zbl 1036.14010)]. The proof is close to that from an earlier paper of the authors [Topology 44, No. 1, 63--71 (2005; Zbl 1108.14048)], where every orientable Seifert \(3\)-manifold is shown to be diffeomorphic to a component of a real algebraic uniruled \(3\)-manifold; its main idea is to represent a connected sum of lens spaces as a Werther fibration over a smooth surface with boundary.