Extension of holomorphic bundles to the disc (and Serre's problem on Stein bundles) (Q2372805)

This paper in several complex variables treats holomorphic fiber bundles with domains in the Riemann sphere for base and \({\mathbb C}^n\) for fibers, and makes a contribution to Skoda's and Demailly's counterexamples to the Serre problem that asked whether the total space of a holomorphic fiber bundle is a Stein manifold if its base and fibers are. The article contains two statements: Proposition~1.2 and its Corollary~1.3. Proposition~1.2. Let \(\Lambda\subset S\) be a domain in the Riemann sphere \(S\) bounded by finitely many Jordan curves, \(G\) a group of biholomorphic automorphisms of \({\mathbb C}^n\) generated by complex one-parameter groups, and \(X\to\Lambda\) a holomorphic fiber bundle of fiber type \({\mathbb C}^n\), whose fiber gluing automorphisms, relative to appropriate local trivializations, are independent of the base variable, and lie in the group \(G\). Then there is a holomorphic fiber bundle \(\widetilde X\to S\) of fiber type \({\mathbb C}^n\), whose fiber gluing automorphisms, relative to appropriate local trivializations, belong to the group \(G\), but may depend on the base variable, and the restriction \(\widetilde X| \Lambda\) of \(\widetilde X\) to \(\Lambda\) is \(X\). In other words, a holomorphic flat \(G\)-bundle \(X\to\Lambda\) can be extended to a holomorphic not necessarily flat \(G\)-bundle \(\widetilde X\to S\) over the whole Riemann sphere \(S\). The proof of Proposition~1.2 is short and self-contained. It relies on working with a bundle over an annulus and trying to fill the annulus with a disc having a bundle over it that can be glued to the given bundle over the annulus. The one-parameter subgroups that generate \(G\) come into play as providers of convenient homotopies. The paper has some typos and inconsistencies of notation, but it is informative and pleasant to read.