Finiteness of prescribed fibers of local biholomorphisms: a geometric approach (Q2516882)

For a connected non-compact complex manifold \(X\) of dimension at least 2 and a local biholomorphism \(F : X \to \mathbb C^n\), \(q\in F(X)\) the authors prove a sufficient condition for \(F^{-1}(q)\) to by finite. The following corollaries of this result are very interesting in the case when the dimension of the manifold \(X\) equals \(n\). They are connected with the well-known Jacobian conjecture (every polynomial local biholomorphism \( \mathbb C^n \to \mathbb C^n\) must by injective). Corollary 2. Let \(X\) be a connected complex \(n\)-manifold that carries a complete Kähler metric of negative holomorphic sectional curvature and \(F : X \to \mathbb C^n\) a local biholomorphism, \(n\geq 2\). If the pre-image under \(F\) of every affine complex line that intersects \(F(X)\) is 1-connected, then \(F\) is injective. Corollary 3. A surjective local biholomorphism \(F : \mathbb C^n \to \mathbb C^n\), \(n\geq 2\), is invertible iff the pre-image of every complex line is a 1-connected set.