Minimal rational curves and 1-flat irreducible G-structures

DOI10.1007/S12220-022-00901-7MaRDI QIDQ2124385zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jun-Muk Hwang, Qifeng Li

Publication date 11 April 2022

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02529

zbMATH Keywords

Cartan connectionshypercomplexquaternionicspecial holonomy manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homogeneous spaces and generalizations (14M17) Rationally connected varieties (14M22) (G)-structures (53C10)

Abstract: 1-flat irreducible G-structures, equivalently, irreducible G-structures admitting torsion-free affine connections, have been studied extensively in differential geometry, especially in connection with the theory of affine holonomy groups. We propose to study them in a setting in algebraic geometry, where they arise from varieties of minimal rational tangents (VMRT) associated to families of minimal rational curves on uniruled projective manifolds. We prove that such a structure is locally symmetric when the dimension of the uniruled projective manifold is at least 5. By the classification result of Merkulov and Schwachh"ofer on irreducible affine holonomy, the problem is reduced to the case when the VMRT at a general point of the uniruled projective manifold is isomorphic to a subadjoint variety. In the latter situation, we prove a stronger result that, without the assumption of 1-flatness, the structure arising from VMRT is always locally flat. The proof employs the method of Cartan connections. An interesting feature is that Cartan connections are considered not for the G-structures themselves, but for certain geometric structures on the spaces of minimal rational curves.

Review text

In the paper the authors study irreducible \(G\)-structures admitting torsion-free affine connections in the setting of algebraic geometry, by considering varieties of minimal rational tangents (VMRT) associated to families of minimal rational curves on uniruled projective manifolds. They prove that such a structure has to be locally symmetric when the dimension of the uniruled projective manifold is at least 5. When the VMRT at a general point of the uniruled projective manifold is isomorphic to a subadjoint variety they show that without the assumption of 1-flatness, the structure arising from VMRT is always locally flat. To prove the result they use the method of Cartan connections considering the Cartan connections for certain geometric structures on the spaces of minimal rational curves. In particular, they apply a method developed by the authors in [J. Geom. Anal. 32, No. 6, Paper No. 179, 37 p. (2022; Zbl 07505946)] where they described for a general class of geometric structures the obstructions to the existence of Cartan connections as certain holomorphic tensors.

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