Characterizations of certain weakly pseudoconvex domains E(k,\(\alpha\) ) in \({\mathbb{C}}^ n\) (Q1117361)

If k is an integer, if \(\alpha >0\) then set: \(\rho (k,\alpha;z)=- 1+\sum^{k}_{i=1}| z_ i|^ 2+| \sum^{n}_{j=k+1}| z_ j|^ 2)^{\alpha}\) and \(E(k,\alpha)=\{z\in {\mathbb{C}}^ n| \quad \rho (k,\alpha;z)<0\}.\) The author obtains several results which characterize the weakly pseudoconvex domains E(k,\(\alpha)\), e.g.: Let M be a hyperbolic manifold of complex dimension n. Assume that M can be exhausted by biholomorphic images of the weakly pseudoconvex domain E(k,\(\alpha)\). Then M is biholomorphically equivalent either to E(k,\(\alpha)\) or to the unit ball \(B^ n\).