Holomorphic injectivity and the Hopf map.

Abstract: We give sharp conditions on a local biholomorphism

F : X o m a t h b b C^{n}

which ensure global injectivity. For

n g e q 2

, such a map is injective if for each complex line

l s u b s e t m a t h b b C^{n}

, the pre-image

F^{- 1} (l)

embeds holomorphically as a connected domain into

m a t h b b C m a t h b b P^{1}

, the embedding being unique up to M"obius transformation. In particular,

F

is injective if the pre-image of every complex line is connected and conformal to

m a t h b b C

. The proof uses the topological fact that the natural map

m a t h b b R m a t h b b P^{2 n - 1} o m a t h b b C m a t h b b P^{n - 1}

associated to the Hopf map admits no continuous sections and the classical Bieberbach-Gronwall estimates from complex analysis.

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