Proper holomorphic embeddings into Stein manifolds with the density property (Q518561)

Let \(X\) be a Stein manifold satisfying either the density property or the volume density property, and let \(S\) be a Stein manifold. In the paper under review, the authors show that if \(2\dim S+1\leq \dim X\), then every continuous map \(f: S\rightarrow X\) is homotopic to a proper holomorphic embedding \(F: S\hookrightarrow X\). In addition, suppose that \(K\) is a compact \(\mathscr{O}(S)\)-convex set in \(S\), i.e., \(K\) is compact and for every point \(x\in S\backslash K\) there exists \(g \in \mathscr{O}(S)\) with \(|g(x)|>\text{sup}_K|g|\). If \(f\) is holomorphic on a neighborhood of \(K\), and \(S'\) is a closed complex subvariety of \(S\) such that the restricted map \(f|_{S'}: S'\hookrightarrow X\) is a proper holomorphic embedding of \(S'\) into \(X\), then \(F\) can be chosen to agree with \(f\) on \(S'\) and to approximate \(f\) uniformly on \(K\) as closely as desired. Moreover, the authors prove a more precise result, showing, in particular, that the proper holomorphic embedding \(F: S\hookrightarrow X\) mentioned above can be chosen to avoid a given compact holomorphically convex subset of the target manifold \(X\).