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The aim of this paper is to give a short proof of the following characterization of the projective space.
The author gratefully acknowledge support by the Forschungsschwerpunkt “Globale Methoden in der komplexen Analysis” of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
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Kebekus, S. (2002). Characterizing the Projective Space after Cho, Miyaoka and Shepherd-Barron. In: Bauer, I., Catanese, F., Peternell, T., Kawamata, Y., Siu, YT. (eds) Complex Geometry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56202-0_10
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