Campana–Peternell width-decreasing conjecture for CP-manifolds

A CP-manifold is a Fano manifold with nef tangent bundle. For a CP-manifold XX of Picard number nn, choose minimal rational curves Γi\Gamma_i associated with its elementary extremal rays and define its width by

τ(X):=i=1n(KXΓi2).\tau(X):=\sum_{i=1}^n(-K_X\cdot\Gamma_i-2).

A CP-manifold is of flag type when all its elementary contractions are smooth P1\mathbb{P}^1-fibrations; equivalently, its width is zero.

Width-decreasing conjecture. Let XX be a CP-manifold which is not a product of positive-dimensional varieties. If τ(X)>0\tau(X)>0, then there exists a surjective morphism f:XXf:X'\to X from a CP-manifold XX', which is not a product of positive-dimensional varieties, such that τ(X)<τ(X)\tau(X')<\tau(X).

This property would complete the proposed strategy for the Campana–Peternell Conjecture: the width would decrease until one reaches a flag-type manifold, which is a complete flag manifold by the theorem cited in the source. The source does not report a resolution of this conjecture.

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Roberto Muñoz, Gianluca Occhetta, Luis E. Solá Conde, Kiwamu Watanabe and Jarosław A. Wiśniewski, “A survey on the Campana-Peternell Conjecture”, arXiv:1407.6483 (2015).

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