Calabi-Yau manifolds and a conjecture of Kobayashi
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Calabi-Yau manifolds and a conjecture of Kobayashi
zbMATH Open document ID: 0735.14028
DOI: 10.1007/BF02571390
author: Thomas Peternell
published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift
publication date: 1992-06-25T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/174271
review text: Let \(X\) be a Calabi-Yau manifold, i.e. a projective manifold with a trivial canonical bundle and with no holomorphic 1-forms. This paper deals with the basic problem of finding rational curves on \(X\). In dimension 2, \(X\) is a \(K3\) surface and there is nothing more to say about this problem. --- In this paper the author proves that, in dimension 3, \(X\) contains a rational curve in each one of the following cases: (a) there exists a nef divisor \(D\) on \(X\), \(D^ 3=0\), \(Dc_ 2(X)\neq0\), \(D^ 2H>0\), for some ample \(H\); (b) \(X\) contains an irreducible surface \(S\) as a non ample divisor. In case (a) a result by \textit{P. M. A. Wilson} [Invent. Math. 98, No. 1, 139-155 (1989; Zbl 0688.14032){]} says that a multiple of \(D\) gives rise to an elliptic fibre space \(f\): \(X\to S\) onto a normal surface \(S\). \(S\) turns out to be rational and the inverse image via \(f\) of a rational curve on \(S\) is a surface on \(X\), which is shown to contain a rational curve. As to (b) in most cases the result is got by applying either (a) or similar criteria by Wilson, which show the existence of rational curves if there are certain special divisors \(D\) on \(X\). The proof consists in building those special \(D\)'s. Next a hyperbolic projective threefold \(Y\) is considered, this meaning that any holomorphic map \(\mathbb{C}\to Y\) is constant. Following a conjecture of Kobayashi, the canonical bundle of \(Y\) is proved to be ample possibly unless \(Y\) is a Calabi-Yau manifold with any effective divisor being ample and \(\rho(X)\leq19\).
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14J30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14C20
zbMATH DE Number: 10122
zbMATH Keywords: rational curve on Calabi-Yau manifold
zbMATH Keywords: nef divisor
zbMATH Keywords: non ample divisor
zbMATH Keywords: threefold
Wikidata QID: Q122898048
reviewed by: Marino Palleschi
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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