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

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

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

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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