On complete noncompact Kähler manifolds with positive bisectional curvature (Q1411992)

The authors prove that a complete noncompact Kähler manifold \(M^n\) of positive bisectional curvature satisfying suitable growth conditions is biholomorphic to a pseudoconvex domain of \({\mathbb{C}}^n\). In fact, they use the Ricci flow equation \({\partial}\over{\partial t}\) \(g_{ij}(t)=-2R_{ij}(t)\) and improve a result of \textit{N. Mok}, \textit{Y. Siu} and \textit{S. T. Yau} [Compos. Math. 44, 183--218 (1981; Zbl 0531.32007)]. The main result is given by Theorem 1.1. Let \(M\) be a complete noncompact Kähler manifold of nonnegative holomorphic bisectional curvature of complex dimension \(n\geq 2\). Suppose for a fixed base point \(x_0\) there exist positive constants \(C_1,C_2\) and \(0<\varepsilon <1\) such that (i) \(\text{Vol}(B(x_0,r))\geq C_1r^{2n}, \;0\leq r <+\infty\),\ (ii) \(R(x)\leq\) \({C_2}\over{1+d(x_0,x)^{1+\varepsilon}}\), \(x\in M\). Then \(M\) is a Stein manifold. Moreover, they obtain Theorem 1.2. Under the same assumptions of Theorem 1.1., one has (1) \(M\) is diffemorphic to \({\mathbb{R}}^{2n}\) if \(n>2\), \(M\) is homeomorphic to \({\mathbb{R}}^4\) if \(n=2\), and (2) \(M\) is biholomorphic to a pseudoconvex domain in \({\mathbb{C}}^n\).