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On the Frobenius Integrability of Certain Holomorphic p-Forms

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The goal of this note is to exhibit the integrability properties (in the sense of the Frobenius theorem) of holomorphic p-forms with values in certain line bundles with semi-negative curvature on a compact Kähler manifold. There are in fact very strong restrictions, both on the holomorphic form and on the curvature of the semi-negative line bundle. In particular, these observations provide interesting information on the structure of projective manifolds which admit a contact structure: either they are Fano manifolds or, thanks to results of Kebekus-Peternell-Sommese-Wisniewski, they are biholomorphic to the projectivization of the cotangent bundle of another suitable projective manifold.

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Demailly, JP. (2002). On the Frobenius Integrability of Certain Holomorphic p-Forms. In: Bauer, I., Catanese, F., Peternell, T., Kawamata, Y., Siu, YT. (eds) Complex Geometry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56202-0_6

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