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Mean curvature positivity and rational connectedness

Differential Geometry 2024-12-11 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we use Uhlenbeck-Yau's continuity method to establish the correspondence between the mean curvature positivity and the HN-positivity on holomorphic vector bundles over compact Hermitian manifolds. As its application, we get a differential geometric criterion for rational connectedness, i.e. we prove that a compact K\"ahler manifold is projective and rationally connected if and only if its holomorphic tangent bundle is mean curvature positive.

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@article{arxiv.2112.00488,
  title  = {Mean curvature positivity and rational connectedness},
  author = {Chao Li and Chuanjing Zhang and Xi Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.00488},
  year   = {2024}
}
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