The projective-space conjecture for smooth Fano varieties

Let XX be a smooth Fano variety of Picard number one, meaning that KX-K_X is ample and ρ(X)=1\rho(X)=1. Suppose that XX admits a non-isomorphic surjective endomorphism ff. The projective-space conjecture. Then XX is a projective space. This is a long-standing conjecture from the 1980s; it is known for homogeneous spaces, Fano threefolds of Picard number one, and hypersurfaces of projective space, but remains open in general.

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Sheng Meng, De-Qi Zhang and Guolei Zhong, “Non-isomorphic endomorphisms of Fano threefolds”, arXiv:2008.10295 (2021).

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