Compact Kähler manifolds with compactifiable universal cover (Q2861490)

The article is a follow up to the joint article of the authors with \textit{J. Kollár} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 679, 207--221 (2013; Zbl 1278.14030)]. Both articles revolve around the conjecture that if \(X\) is a compact Kähler manifold such that the universal cover \(\tilde{X}\) of \(X\) is Zariski open in a compact complex manifold, then there exists a locally trivial fibration \(X' \to A\) with simply connected fiber \(F\) from an étale cover \(X'\) of \(X\) onto a complex torus \(A\). This conjecture in particular implies that in this situation \(\tilde{X}\) is biholomorphic to \(F \times \mathbb{C}^{\dim A}\).NEWLINENEWLINEWhile in [loc. cit.] the above conjecture was handled for algebraic varieties having quasi-projective universal covers, in the present article the authors handle the case when \(X\) and the compactification of \(\tilde{X}\) are Kähler and \(\pi_1(X)\) is almost abelian.