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This is the key chapter of the book. Its aim is to study the birational properties of those varieties which are covered by rational curves. It is reasonable to expect that many of their properties can be detected by studying the rational curves on them.
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Kollár, J. (1996). Rationally Connected Varieties. In: Rational Curves on Algebraic Varieties. Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, vol 32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03276-3_5
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