The Oka principle for sections of subelliptic submersions (Q1566420)

The author introduces a more flexible and apparently weaker condition which implies the parametric Oka principle for maps \(X\to Y\) from Stein manifolds \(X\) to complex manifolds \(Y\) which admit a finite dominating collection of sprays (such manifolds are called subelliptic), as well as the corresponding result for sections of submersions. The main result of the paper extends the results of Oka, Grauert, and Gromov: If \(h: Z\to X\) is a subelliptic submersion onto a Stein manifold \(X\), then the inclusion \(\iota_h: \Gamma_{\text{holo}}(X; Z)\hookrightarrow\Gamma_{\text{cont}}(X; Z)\) of the space of holomorphic sections of \(h\) into the space of continuous sections is a weak homotopy equivalence. (Both spaces are endowed with the topology of uniform convergence on compacts.) It is also proved a result on removing intersections of holomorphic maps from Stein manifolds with closed complex subvarieties with subelliptic complements.