On Subvarieties of Degenerations of Fano Varieties

Abstract: The goal of this work is to study geometric properties of geometrically irreducible subschemes on degenerations of Fano varieties (more generally, of separably rationally connected varieties). It is known that these geometrically irreducible subschemes exist when the ground field has characteristic zero or contains an algebraically closed subfield. We show that the dimension of this geometrically irreducible subscheme has a lower bound by the Fano index of the generic fibre.