Picard's theorem and hyperbolicity (Q1067051)

The author investigates the interrelations between the multidimensional analogs of the small and big Picard theorem and Montel's theorem by means of hyperbolicity. In generalizations of these three theorems, the pair \(({\mathbb{C}}P^ 1,{\mathbb{C}}P^ 1\setminus \{0;1;\infty \}\) \(({\mathbb{C}}P^ 1\) the Riemann sphere) is replaced by a pair (M,Y), where Y is a submanifold (as a rule, a domain) of a complex manifold M. The connection between these theorems and hyperbolicity in the sense of Kobayashi is as follows: For a hyperbolic manifold the small Picard theorem is true; for a pair (M,Y), where \(Y\subset \subset M\), the big Picard theorem is satisfied if Y is hyperbolically embedded in M; the latter condition is equivalent to the truth of Montel's theorem for the pair (M,Y) [see \textit{S. Kobayashi}, Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 82, 357-416 (1976; Zbl 0346.32031), Theorems 3.5, 3.6, and 8.4]. The author studies the class of locally complete hyperbolic (l.c.h.) submanifolds, introduced in the papers of Kobayashi and Kiernan [see \textit{P. Kiernan}, Math. Ann. 204, 203-209 (1973; Zbl 0244.32010); \textit{P. Kiernan} and \textit{S. Kobayashi}, Nagoya, Math. J. 50, 199-216 (1973; Zbl 0262.32010)]. It turns out that for l.c.h. submanifolds an analog of Green's theorem is true (Sec. 2, Theorem 2.1). The proof is carried out according to the scheme of Brody and Green. The property of being l.c.h. is satisfied by closed submanifolds of polyhedral domains (Sec. 3), in particular, affine manifolds, polynomial polyhedra, and so on. In Sec. 4 the author gives the conditions for hyperbolicity and hyperbolic embedding of the inverse image of a hyperbolic manifold in terms of the fibers of the map. In particular, he obtains here a positive answer to Problem 10, posed by \textit{S. Kobayashi} in ''Hyperbolic manifolds and holomorphic mappings'' (1970; Zbl 0207.379), and gives a criterion for complete hyperbolicity and hyperbolic embedding in \({\mathbb{C}}P^ 2\) of an unbounded polynomial polyhedron \(\{| p(x,y)| <r\}\), which was used in the papers of the author and \textit{V. Ya. Lin} [Sov. Math. Dokl. 20, 1262-1266 (1979); translation from Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 249, 282-285 (1979; Zbl 0444.32005); and ''Holomorphic contractibility and quasihomogeneity'', Theor. Appl. Questions Math., Tartu Conf., 160-162 (1980)]. The results of this paper were announced in the author's paper Funkts. Anal. Prilozh. 14, No.4, 77-78 (1980; Zbl 0458.32016).