On moment map and bigness of tangent bundles of $G$-varieties

Abstract: Let $G$ be a connected algebraic group and let $X$ be a smooth projective $G$-variety. In this paper, we prove a sufficient criterion to determine the bigness of the tangent bundle $TX$ using the moment map $\Phi_X^G:T^*X\rightarrow \mathfrak{g}^*$. As an application, the bigness of the tangent bundles of certain quasi-homogeneous varieties are verified, including symmetric varieties, horospherical varieties and equivariant compactifications of commutative linear algebraic groups. Finally, we study in details the Fano manifolds $X$ with Picard number $1$ which is an equivariant compactification of a vector group $\mathbb{G}_a^n$. In particular, we will determine the pseudoeffective cone of $\mathbb{P}(T^*X)$ and show that the image of the projectivised moment map along the boundary divisor $D$ of $X$ is projectively equivalent to the dual variety of the VMRT of $X$.