Minimal rational curves and 1-flat irreducible G-structures

DOI10.1007/S12220-022-00901-7zbMATH Open1496.53030arXiv2204.02529OpenAlexW4226051409MaRDI QIDQ2124385FDOQ2124385

Qifeng Li, Jun-Muk Hwang

Publication date: 11 April 2022

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

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.

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

zbMATH Keywords

hypercomplexCartan connectionsquaternionicspecial holonomy manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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