Geometric structures on uniruled projective manifolds defined by their varieties of minimal rational tangents
Géométrie différentielle, physique mathématique, mathématiques et société (II) - Volume en l'honneur de Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Astérisque, no. 322 (2008), p. 151-205
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Mok, Ngaiming. Geometric structures on uniruled projective manifolds defined by their varieties of minimal rational tangents, in Géométrie différentielle, physique mathématique, mathématiques et société (II) - Volume en l'honneur de Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Astérisque, no. 322 (2008), pp. 151-205. http://www.numdam.org/item/AST_2008__322__151_0/

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