Projective contact classification and the LeBrun–Salamon conjecture. Proves the LeBrun–Salamon conjecture: every closed connected positive quaternionic-Kähler manifold of real dimension at least eight is homothetic to a compact symmetric Wolf space. It also proves contact-Fano homogeneity and classifies smooth connected complex projective contact manifolds of complex dimension at least three: those with $b_2=1$ are adjoint varieties with their canonical contact structures, while those with $b_2\ge2$ have underlying manifold $\mathbb P(T^*Z)$ for a smooth projective variety Z.
released 2026-09-23 | 2 theorems · 15 lemmas · 31 proofs · 19,447 words |
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We resolve the contact-Fano homogeneity conjecture and the Riemannian LeBrun–Salamon conjecture positively. Every smooth connected complex projective contact Fano manifold of complex dimension at least three, with its given contact distribution, is contact-isomorphic to the adjoint variety of a simple complex Lie algebra. Consequently, every closed connected smooth positive quaternionic-Kähler manifold of real dimension $4m\geq8$ is homothetic to a compact symmetric Wolf space.