Let be a normal projective variety, and let be an ample Cartier divisor on . Suppose that is not the projective space. We prove that the twisted cotangent sheaf is generically nef with respect to the polarisation . As an application we prove a Kobayashi-Ochiai theorem for foliations: if is a foliation such that , then is at most the rank of .
In this appendix, we observe that Iitaka’s conjecture fits in the more general context of special manifolds, in which the relevant statements follow from the particular cases of projective and simple manifolds.
In this paper we study the structure of manifolds that contain a quasi-line and give some evidence towards the fact that the irreducible components of degenerations of the quasi-line should determine the Mori cone. We show that the minimality with respect to a quasi-line yields strong restrictions on fibre space structures of the manifold.
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