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Rigid geometry on projective varieties

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We prove rigidity of various types of holomorphic geometric structures on smooth complex projective varieties.

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Thanks to Indranil Biswas, Sorin Dumitrescu, Maciej Dunajski, J. M. Landsberg and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments.

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McKay, B. Rigid geometry on projective varieties. Math. Z. 272, 761–791 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00209-011-0957-9

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