The folklore conjecture on endomorphisms of Fano manifolds of Picard number 1
Let be a Fano manifold of Picard number 1, and let a non-isomorphic surjective endomorphism of mean a surjective morphism that is not an isomorphism.
Folklore conjecture. If admits a non-isomorphic surjective endomorphism, then is a projective space.
This folklore conjecture from the 1980s concerns the classification of Fano manifolds of Picard number 1 with non-trivial self-maps. The paper proves dynamical rigidity under additional hypotheses, including bigness of the tangent bundle and a condition on the variety of minimal rational tangents, but the conjecture as stated remains open.
References
Primary source
Feng Shao and Guolei Zhong, “Bigness of tangent bundles and dynamical rigidity of Fano manifolds of Picard number 1 (with an appendix by Jie Liu)”, arXiv:2311.15559 (2024).
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