On the holomorphic convexity of reductive linear coverings of a projective complex algebraic manifold (Q1882743)

In the past decade, various attempts have been made to tackle the Shafarevich conjecture which predicts the holomorphically convexity of the universal covering \(\widetilde X\) of any projective manifold \(X\). From these investigations, there were some candidates for a possible counterexample for that conjecture. Then came Kollár's approach to investigate the case when the fundamental group of \(X\) admits large finite-dimensional representations. In this direction, the author shows that, for a given \(n\in\mathbb{N}\), the topological covering space \(\widetilde X_n\) of a projective algebraic manifold \(X\) corresponding to the intersection of the kernels of all linear reductive representations of \(\pi_1(X)\) to \(\text{GL}_n(\mathbb{C})\) is holomorphically convex. When \(\dim X= 2\), this result is a corollary of a theorem due to \textit{L. Katzarkov} and \textit{M. Ramachandran} [Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér., IV. Sér. 31, No. 4, 525--535 (1998; Zbl 0936.14012)].