EXTREMAL RAYS AND NULL GEODESICS ON A COMPLEX CONFORMAL MANIFOLD

A holomorphic conformal structure on a complex manifold X is an everywhere non-degenerate section [Formula: see text] for some line bundle N. In this paper, we show that if X is a projective complex n-dimensional manifold with non-numerically effective K and admits a holomorphic conformal structure, then X ≅ ℚ. This in particular answers affirmatively a question of Kobayashi and Ochiai. They asked if the same holds assuming c (X) > 0. As a consequence, we also show that any projective conformal manifold with an immersed rational null geodesic is necessarily a smooth hyperquadric ℚ.

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Author David Yungang Ye Mathematics