Conjecture on integrability of split tangent factors on rationally connected manifolds

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Let XX be a projective manifold with split tangent bundle

TX=V1⊕V2.T_X=V_1 \oplus V_2.

A subbundle V⊂TXV\subset T_X is integrable if it is closed under the Lie bracket of local sections. Integrability conjecture. If XX is rationally connected, then V1V_1 or V2V_2 is integrable.

There are no known examples of rationally connected manifolds with split tangent bundle whose direct factors are both non-integrable. The conjecture is presented as an optimistic expectation and is proved in the paper only under additional hypotheses.

References

Primary source

Andreas Höring, “The structure of uniruled manifolds with split tangent bundle”, arXiv:math/0612635 (2006).

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