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Is there any example (or more ambitiously, classification) of $X$ with following properties?

  • $X$ is a variety over $\mathbb{C}$;
  • $X$ is projective and normal;
  • $\rho(X) = 1$;
  • $X$ is birational to $\mathbb{P}^n$.

Also, I want to hear a result after adding a singularity condition: How about when $X$ is $\mathbb{Q}$-factorial? How about $X$ is non-singular?

I can't find an example which is not isomorphic to $\mathbb{P}^n$. The only result I know in this direction is Mori's theorem: If a nonsingular variety $X$ has ample tangent bundle, then $X$ is isomorphic to $\mathbb{P}^n$.

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    $\begingroup$ There a plenty of nonsingular examples: quadrics, Grassmanians... $\endgroup$
    – Donu Arapura
    Commented Jan 5, 2012 at 17:11
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    $\begingroup$ There are also non-homogeneous examples, e.g., an intersection of two generic quadrics in $\mathbb{P}^5$, certain cubic hypersurfaces in $\mathh{P}^{2n+1}$ with $n>1$, moduli spaces of rank $r$ vector bundles on a fixed genus $g>1$ curve with fixed determinant of degree $d$ relatively prime to $r$, ... $\endgroup$
    – Jason Starr
    Commented Jan 5, 2012 at 18:55
  • $\begingroup$ Oh, I thought it too difficult way... Thank you for comments! $\endgroup$
    – Moon
    Commented Jan 5, 2012 at 21:45

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Hyperquadrics of dimension at least three.

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