Differential geometry of complex hypersurfaces (Q2530645)

Let \(P^n(\mathbb C)\) denote the complex projective space, \(Q^n=\{[z_1, \ldots, z_{n+2}] \in P^{n+1}(\mathbb C) \mid z_1^2+\cdots+z_{n+2}^2=0\}\), \(\mathbb C^n\) complex \(n\)-space, and \(D^n\) the unit ball in \(\mathbb C^n\) endowed with natural complex structure and Bergmann metric. The author's main result is the following theorem: If \(n\ge 2\), then (i) \(P^n(\mathbb C)\) and the complex quadric \(Q^n\) are the only complex hypersurfaces of \(P^{n+1}(\mathbb C)\) which are complete and Einstein, and (ii) \(D^n\) (resp. \(\mathbb C^n\) ) is the only simply connected complex hypersurface of \(D^{n+1}\) (resp. \(\mathbb C^{n+1}\) ) which is complete and Einstein. This result bears comparison with papers of E. Cartan, T. Y. Thomas, and Fialkow, in which corresponding theorems for ordinary hypersurfaces of spaces of constant curvature are proved. Since the appearance of the author's paper several authors notably S. S. Chern and K. Nomizu, have extended his results. In the paper reviewed above [Zbl 0168.19505] \textit{S. S. Chern} has, moreover, shown that the author's theorem is a completely local result.