Minimal-Degree Foliations on Cominuscule Grassmannians

Abstract

Given $X$ a cominuscule Grassmannian (or irreducible Hermitian symmetric space) and an integer $p,$ we compute the minimum $l(p)$ such that $H^0 (\Omega^p_X (l(p)))$ is not 0. This allows us to conclude that any codimension-one foliation of degree zero on a cominuscule Grassmannian is a pencil of hyperplanes, improving a result of the first and third authors with D. Faenzi. We also deduce the structure of codimension-one foliations of degree one. Finally, we provide families of examples of high codimensional foliations of minimal degree on classical Grassmannians, Lagrangian Grassmannians, Spinor varieties, and the Cayley plane.