Rationally Connected Foliations on Surfaces

In this short note we study foliations on surfaces with rationally connected leaves. Our main result is that on a surface there exists a polarisation such that the Harder-Narasimhan filtration of the tangent bundle with respect to this polarisation yields the maximal rationally connected quotient of the surface.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 14J26, 37F75

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