Characterizations of projective spaces and hyperquadrics

Abstract

In this paper we prove that if the $r$-th tensor power of the tangent bundle of a smooth projective variety $X$ contains the determinant of an ample vector bundle of rank at least $r$, then $X$ is isomorphic either to a projective space or to a smooth quadric hypersurface. Our result generalizes Mori's, Wahl's, Andreatta-Wiśniewski's and Araujo-Druel-Kovács's characterizations of projective spaces and hyperquadrics.