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The Rationality Criterion

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In this chapter we explain a remarkable theorem of Miyaoka [32] which asserts that a foliation whose cotangent bundle is not pseudoeffective is a foliation by rational curves. The original Miyaoka’s proof can be thought as a foliated version of Mori’s technique of construction of rational curves by deformations of morphisms in positive characteristic [33].

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Brunella, M. (2015). The Rationality Criterion. In: Birational Geometry of Foliations. IMPA Monographs, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14310-1_7

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