Characterizing symplectic Grassmannians by varieties of minimal rational tangents

DOI10.4310/JDG/1632506422zbMATH Open1487.14111arXiv1901.00357OpenAlexW3202174587WikidataQ115164107 ScholiaQ115164107MaRDI QIDQ2073263FDOQ2073263

Authors: Jun-Muk Hwang, Qifeng Li 

Publication date: 1 February 2022

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that if the variety of minimal rational tangents (VMRT) of a uniruled projective manifold at a general point is projectively equivalent to that of a symplectic or an odd-symplectic Grassmannian, the germ of a general minimal rational curve is biholomorphic to the germ of a general line in a presymplectic Grassmannian. As an application, we characterize symplectic and odd-symplectic Grassmannians, among Fano manifolds of Picard number 1, by their VMRT at a general point and prove their rigidity under global K"ahler deformation. Analogous results for $G/P$ associated with a long root were obtained by Mok and Hong-Hwang a decade ago by using Tanaka theory for parabolic geometries. When $G/P$ is associated with a short root, for which symplectic Grassmannians are most prominent examples, the associated local differential geometric structure is no longer a parabolic geometry and standard machinery of Tanaka theory cannot be applied because of several degenerate features. To overcome the difficulty, we show that Tanaka's method can be generalized to a setting much broader than parabolic geometries, by assuming a pseudo-concavity type condition that certain vector bundles arising from Spencer complexes have no nonzero sections. The pseudo-concavity type condition is checked by exploiting geometry of minimal rational curves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00357

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zbMATH Keywords

symplectic Grassmanniansminimal rational curvesCartan connections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rationally connected varieties (14M22) Deformations of complex structures (32G05) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Homogeneous spaces and generalizations (14M17) Other connections (53B15)

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