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The notion of admissible pairs of rational homogeneous spaces of Picard number one and their rigidity in terms of the geometric substructures was formulated by Mok and Zhang. The rigidity is known for subdiagram type. While when the…
Let $X$ be a complex smooth Fano variety of dimension $n$. In this paper, we give a classification of such $X$ when the pseudoindex is equal to $\dfrac{\dim X+1}{2}$ and the Picard number greater than one.
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