Numerical characterization of some toric fiber bundles

Abstract

Given a complex projective manifold X and a divisor D with normal crossings, we say that the logarithmic tangent bundle $$T_X(-\hbox {log}\, D)$$ is R-flat if its pull-back to the normalization of any rational curve contained in X is the trivial vector bundle. If moreover $$-(K_X+D)$$ is nef, then the log canonical divisor $$K_X+D$$ is torsion and the maximally rationally chain connected fibration turns out to be a smooth locally trivial fibration with typical fiber F being a toric variety with boundary divisor $$D_{|F}$$ .