Projective contact classification and the LeBrun–Salamon conjecture

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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 b2=1b_2=1 are adjoint varieties with their canonical contact structures, while those with b2≥2b_2\ge2 have underlying manifold P(T∗Z)\mathbb P(T^*Z) for a smooth projective variety Z.

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