LeBrun–Salamon conjecture for Fano contact manifolds

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Let ZZ be a Fano contact manifold, meaning a compact complex contact manifold whose first Chern class can be represented by a positive (1,1)(1,1)-form, and suppose that b1(Z)=1b_{1}(Z)=1.

LeBrun–Salamon conjecture. The manifold ZZ must be homogeneous.

For Fano contact manifolds with b2(Z)>1b_{2}(Z)>1, the corresponding classification is known: ZZ is the projectivized cotangent bundle of complex projective space and is homogeneous. The case b1(Z)=1b_{1}(Z)=1 remains open in the stated generality.

References

Primary source

Eder M. Correa, “From complex contact structures to real almost contact 3-structures”, arXiv:2009.10797 (2020).

Additional references

6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2007–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1805.08548, arXiv:0911.4587, arXiv:0911.3250, arXiv:0805.3848, arXiv:math/0703231.

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The manuscript claims that every smooth connected complex projective contact Fano manifold of complex dimension at least three, with its specified contact distribution, is contact-isomorphic to the adjoint variety of a simple complex Lie algebra. It also states the symmetric-Wolf-space consequence for positive quaternionic-Kähler manifolds of real dimension at least eight.

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