On the admissible pairs of rational homogeneous manifolds of Picard number 1 and geometric structures defined by their varieties of minimal rational tangents

Abstract

In a series of works, Jun-Muk Hwang and Ngaiming Mok have developed a geometric theory of uniruled projective manifolds, especially those of Picard Number 1, relying on the study of Varieties of Minimal Rational Tangents (VMRT) from both the algebro-geometric and the G-structure perspectives. Based on this theory, Ngaiming Mok and Jaehyun Hong studied the standard embedding between two Rational Homogeneous Spaces (RHS) associated to long simple roots which are of different dimensions. In this thesis, I consider admissible pairs of RHS (X0, X) of Picard number 1 and locally closed complex submanifolds S ⊂ X inheriting VMRT sub-structures modeled on X0 = G0/P0 ⊂ X = G/P de_ned by taking intersections of VMRT of X with tangent space of S. Moreover, if any such S modeled on (X0, X) is necessarily the image of a standard embedding i : X0 → X, (X0, X) is said to be rigid. In this thesis, it is proved that an admissible pair (X0, X) is rigid whenever X is associated to a long simple root and X0 is non-linear and de_ned by a marked Dynkin sub-diagram. In the case of the pair (S0, S) of compact Hermitian Symmetric Spaces (cHSS), all the admissible pairs (S0, S) are completely classified. Based on this classification, a sufficient condition for the pair (S0, S) to be non-rigid is established through explicitly constructing a submanifold S ⊂ S such that S can never be obtained from the image of any standard embedding i : S0 → S. Besides, the term special pair is coined for those (S0; S) sorted out through classification, and the algebraicity of submanifolds modeled on special pairs is confirmed by checking a modified form of the non-degeneracy condition defined by Hong and Mok is satisfied. However, the question as to whether these special pairs are rigid, as pointed out in this thesis, remains to be investigated. Finally, pairs of hyperquadrics (Q^n, Q^m) are studied separately. Since non-rigidity is trivial, in these cases it is interesting to establish a characterization of the standard embedding i : Q^n→Q^m under some stronger condition. In this thesis, the latter problem is solved in terms of the partial vanishing of second fundamental forms.