The rational-curves density conjecture for terminal Calabi--Yau models

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Let XX' be a terminal minimal model with torsion canonical bundle. Suppose that XX' has no étale cover which is an Abelian variety. The union of rational curves means the union of all rational curves contained in XX'.

Rational-curves density conjecture. The union of rational curves in XX' is Zariski dense in XX'.

This is a stronger version of the conjecture that torsion-canonical projective manifolds without rational curves are étale quotients of Abelian varieties. The paper notes that it is known for K3 surfaces, while the general terminal Calabi--Yau and hyperkähler cases remain open.

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Kyle Broder and Frédéric Campana, “Weakly Special Manifolds with no rational curves”, arXiv:2410.06402 (2026).

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