A long ℂ2 without holomorphic functions

Autor: Franc Forstneric, Luka Boc Thaler
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Analysis & PDE. 9:2031-2050
ISSN: 1948-206X
2157-5045
DOI: 10.2140/apde.2016.9.2031
Popis: We construct for every integer n > 1 a complex manifold of dimension n which is exhausted by an increasing sequence of biholomorphic images of ℂn (i.e., a long ℂn), but does not admit any nonconstant holomorphic or plurisubharmonic functions. Furthermore, we introduce new holomorphic invariants of a complex manifold X, the stable core and the strongly stable core, which are based on the long-term behavior of hulls of compact sets with respect to an exhaustion of X. We show that every compact polynomially convex set B ⊂ ℂn such that B = B∘ ¯ is the strongly stable core of a long ℂn; in particular, holomorphically nonequivalent sets give rise to nonequivalent long ℂn’s. Furthermore, for every open set U ⊂ ℂn there exists a long ℂn whose stable core is dense in U. It follows that for any n > 1 there is a continuum of pairwise nonequivalent long ℂn’s with no nonconstant plurisubharmonic functions and no nontrivial holomorphic automorphisms. These results answer several long-standing open problems.
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