On compact Kähler manifolds with pseudo-effective tangent bundle
Shin-ichi Matsumura, Chenghao Qing
TL;DR
The paper addresses the structure of compact Kähler manifolds with pseudo-effective tangent bundles by proving the existence of a smooth fibration $φ: X o Y$ onto a finite étale torus quotient $Y$, with a very general fiber $F$ that is rationally connected and has pseudo-effective $T_F$. The approach centers on an Albanese-map-based fibration and an induction on dimension, establishing that fibers become projective and rationally connected after finite étale covers, and that the base $Y$ is a finite étale quotient of a torus; if $T_X$ admits a positively curved singular Hermitian metric, the fibration is locally constant. This result extends the projective structure theorem to compact Kähler manifolds, implies virtual abelianity of $ obreak π_1(X)$, and fits into Campana’s framework of special varieties, providing a Kähler analogue of uniformization results for RC fibrations. Overall, it advances the classification of Kähler manifolds with pseudo-effective tangent bundles and clarifies how curvature hypotheses constrain the fibration structure.
Abstract
In this paper, we prove that a compact Kähler manifold $X$ with pseudo-effective (resp. singular positively curved) tangent bundle admits a smooth (resp. locally constant) rationally connected fibration $φ\colon X \to Y$ onto a finite étale quotient $Y$ of a compact complex torus. This result extends the structure theorem previously established for smooth projective varieties to compact Kähler manifolds.
