A group-theoretic characterization of the space obtained by omitting the coordinate hyperplanes from the complex Euclidean space (Q1431081)

The authors prove that if an \(n\)-dimensional Stein manifold \(M\) has \(\Aut(M) \simeq \Aut({\mathbb C}^k \times ({\mathbb C^*})^{n-k})\), then it is necessarily biholomorphic to \({\mathbb C}^k \times ({\mathbb C^*})^{n-k}\). As corollary, they obtain that \(Aut({\mathbb C}^k \times ({\mathbb C^*})^{\ell})\) and \(\Aut({\mathbb C}^{k'} \times ({\mathbb C^*})^{\ell'})\) are isomorphic if and only if \(k = k'\) and \(\ell = \ell'\). It should be remarked that, whenever \(k + \ell \geq 2\), \(\Aut({\mathbb C}^k \times ({\mathbb C^*})^{\ell})\) is not a Lie group. The proof is based on previous results on Reinhardt domains by the second author and on a theorem by Barrett, Bedford and Dadok, according to which any Stein manifold, on which an \(n\)-dimensional torus acts effectively, is representable as a Reihardt domain in \(\mathbb C^n\).