RC-positive metrics on rationally connected manifolds

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that if a compact Kähler manifold $X$ has a smooth Hermitian metric $\omega$ such that $(T_X,\omega )$ is uniformly RC-positive, then $X$ is projective and rationally connected. Conversely, we show that, if a projective manifold $X$ is rationally connected, then the tautological line bundle ${\mathcal{O}}_{T_X^{\ast }}(-1)$ is uniformly RC-positive (which is equivalent to the existence of some RC-positive complex Finlser metric on $X$). As an application, we prove that if $(X,\omega )$ is a compact Kähler manifold with certain quasi-positive holomorphic sectional curvature, then $X$ is projective and rationally connected.

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