Geometry of webs of algebraic curves

DOI10.1215/00127094-3715296MaRDI QIDQ516146zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jun-Muk Hwang

Publication date 22 March 2017

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05018, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1475602128

zbMATH Keywords

extension of holomorphic mapsFano varietiesminimal rational curvesweb geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fano varieties (14J45) Rationally connected varieties (14M22) Continuation of analytic objects in several complex variables (32D15) Meromorphic mappings in several complex variables (32H04) Differential geometry of webs (53A60)

Abstract: A family of algebraic curves covering a projective variety $X$ is called a web of curves on $X$ if it has only finitely many members through a general point of $X$. A web of curves on $X$ induces a web-structure, in the sense of local differential geometry, in a neighborhood of a general point of $X$. We study how the local differential geometry of the web-structure affects the global algebraic geometry of $X$. Under two geometric assumptions on the web-structure, the pairwise non-integrability condition and the bracket-generating condition, we prove that the local differential geometry determines the global algebraic geometry of $X$, up to generically finite algebraic correspondences. The two geometric assumptions are satisfied, for example, when $$ is a Fano submanifold of Picard number 1, and the family of lines covering $X$ becomes a web. In this special case, we have a stronger result that the local differential geometry of the web-structure determines $X$ up to biregular equivalences. As an application, we show that if $$ are two such Fano manifolds of Picard number 1, then any surjective morphism $f:Xo{X}^{\prime }$ is an isomorphism.

Review text

Let \(X\) be a complex projective variety. A family of curves \(W\) covering \(X\) is called a web if for a general point \(x \in X\) there exist only finitely many members of the family passing through \(x\). This paper concerns the question under which conditions the local web geometry determines the global geometry of \(X\). More precisely, let \(X'\) be another projective variety with a web of curves \(W'\), and suppose that there exists a biholomorphic map \(\varphi: U \rightarrow U'\) between connected Euclidean open subsets \(U \subset X\) and \(U' \subset X'\) inducing a bijection between the (germs of) members of \(W\) in \(U\) and \(W'\) in \(U'\). When is \(\varphi\) induced by a generically finite algebraic correspondence between \(X\) and \(X'\)? The author proves that this is always the case if the webs are pairwise nonintegrable and bracket-generating, two technical but essentially necessary conditions. \newline The author gives a number of situations where the two technical conditions can be easily verified: let \(X \subset \mathbb P^N\) (resp. \(X' \subset \mathbb P^{N'}\)) be a Fano manifold with Picard number one such that the lines contained in \(X\) (resp. \(X'\)) form a web. If there is a biholomorphism \(\varphi\) as above, then there exists even a biholomorphic map \(\Phi: X \rightarrow X'\) such that \(\varphi=\Phi|_U\). As an application one obtains that a finite map \(f: X \rightarrow X'\) between two such Fano manifolds is always an isomorphism. All these statements are optimal, as shown by some interesting examples given in the paper.

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