Homotopy equivalence for proper holomorphic mappings

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2015.09.007MaRDI QIDQ890127zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John P. D'Angelo, Jiri Lebl

Publication date 9 November 2015

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1104

zbMATH Keywords

Blaschke productshomotopy equivalenceproper holomorphic mappings between ballsproper rational mappings between ballsspherical equivalence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Blaschke products (30J10) Holomorphic mappings, (holomorphic) embeddings and related questions in several complex variables (32H02) Proper holomorphic mappings, finiteness theorems (32H35) Complex spaces with a group of automorphisms (32M99) Homotopy equivalences in algebraic topology (55P10)

Abstract: We introduce several homotopy equivalence relations for proper holomorphic mappings between balls. We provide examples showing that the degree of a rational proper mapping between balls (in positive codimension) is not a homotopy invariant. In domain dimension at least 2, we prove that the set of homotopy classes of rational proper mappings from a ball to a higher dimensional ball is finite. By contrast, when the target dimension is at least twice the domain dimension, it is well known that there are uncountably many spherical equivalence classes. We generalize this result by proving that an arbitrary homotopy of rational maps whose endpoints are spherically inequivalent must contain uncountably many spherically inequivalent maps. We introduce Whitney sequences, a precise analogue (in higher dimensions) of the notion of finite Blaschke product (in one dimension). We show that terms in a Whitney sequence are homotopic to monomial mappings, and we establish an additional result about the target dimensions of such homotopies.

Review text

The paper considers proper holomorphic mappings between balls in possibly different dimensional complex Euclidean spaces and introduces the notion of \textit{homotopy equivalence} for such maps. The one-dimensional homotopy equivalence is easy to describe. One of the main results of the paper under review is a higher-dimensional analogue for homotopy equivalence; it is given in terms of Whitney sequences. The authors provide examples showing that the degree of a rational proper mapping between balls (in positive codimension) is not a homotopy invariant. Moreover, the authors show that, in domains of dimension at least two, the set of homotopy classes of rational proper maps from a ball to a higher-dimensional ball is finite. On the other hand, it is proved that an arbitrary homotopy of rational maps whose endpoints are spherically inequivalent must contain uncountably many spherically inequivalent maps.

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