The negative second scalar curvature conjecture for rationally connected Kähler manifolds

Let MmM^m be a compact Kähler manifold with S2<0S_2<0 and m3m\geq 3, where S2S_2 denotes the second scalar curvature, and let rationally connected mean that MM is rationally connected.

Negative second scalar curvature conjecture. The manifold MM cannot be rationally connected.

This is presented as a wild guess motivated by the scarcity of examples. The source gives no resolution of the claim, while posing related questions about negative scalar curvature on rationally connected manifolds.

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Lei Ni and Fangyang Zheng, “Positivity and Kodaira embedding theorem”, arXiv:1804.09696 (2020).

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