On the compactification of hyperconcave ends and the theorems of Siu-Yau and Nadel (Q2491158)

A \textit{strongly pseudoconcave end} is a complex manifold \(X\) admitting a proper smooth \(\phi:X@>>>(c,a)\subset\mathbb{R}\) with \(\phi\) strictly pseudoconcave in \(\{\phi<b\}\) for some \(b\in (a,c)\). It is a \textit{hyperconcave end} when \(a=\inf_{X}{\phi}=-\infty\). A \textit{compactification} or \textit{filling in} of \(X\) is an embedding \(\imath:X\hookrightarrow \Hat{X}\) of \(X\) as an open subspace of a complex space \(\Hat{X}\), in such a way that the sets \((\Hat{X}\setminus X)\cup\{\phi\leq d\}\) are compact for \(d\in (c,a)\). When \(\roman{dim}_{\mathbb{C}}(X)\geq 3\), strongly pseudoconcave ends can be compactified and this statement is in general false when \(\roman{dim}_{\mathbb{C}}(X)\geq 2\) [see e.g. \textit{A. Andreotti}, and \textit{Y. T. Siu}, Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa, Sci. Fis. Mat., III. Ser. 24, 231--278 (1970; Zbl 0195.36901)]). In this paper it is shown that the compactification still holds in dimension two under the stronger assumption that \(X\) is a hyperconcave end: when \(\phi\) is strongly pseudoconvex on \(X\), \(\Hat{X}\) can be taken to be a normal Stein space with at worse isolated singularities. By further investigating the structure of the complex space \(\Hat{X}\), the Authors give an extension of a result of \textit{A. Nadel} [Invent. Math. 101, No. 1, 173--189 (1990; Zbl 0712.32019)], showing that, under the additional assumption that \(\{\phi\geq d\}\) is compact for \(d\in (-\infty,a)\), a hyperconcave end \(X\) is quasi-projective and can be compactified to a Moishezon space by adding finitely many points.