Special lines on contact manifolds

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Abstract: In a series of two articles Kebekus studied deformation theory of minimal rational curves on contact Fano manifolds. Such curves are called contact lines. Kebekus proved that a contact line through a general point is necessarily smooth and has a fixed standard splitting type of the restricted tangent bundle. In this paper we study singular contact lines and those with special splitting type. We provide restrictions on the families of such lines, and on contact Fano manifolds which have reducible varieties of minimal rational tangents. We also show that the results about singular lines naturally generalise to complex contact manifolds, which are not necessarily Fano, for instance, quasi-projective contact manifolds or compact contact manifolds of Fujiki class C. In particular, in many cases the dimension of a family of singular lines is at most 2 less than the dimension of the contact manifold.


The work is related to the problem of classification of contact manifolds as well as to the problem of classification of minimal rational curves on contact manifolds. The authors consider special types of contact lines that are minimal rational curves on contact Fano manifolds. Some important results are obtained when these contact lines are singular and of special splitting type. A generalization of some results for complex contact manifolds that are not Fano is also presented. In particular, some results on singular contact lines have a natural generalization for compact contact manifolds of Fujiki class (that are complex manifolds bimeromorphic to a compact Kähler manifold).



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