Deformations of open stein manifolds (Q4521118)

The authors prove several results about deformation theory of open Stein manifolds: An integrable deformation tensor on a Stein manifold with compact support and norm less than 1, in an appropriate sense, defines the complex structure equivalent to the undeformed one. An integrable deformation of the standard complex structure on \(\mathbb C^n\), \(n\geq 2,\) which tends to a constant deformation faster than \(|z|^{-3}\) is equivalent to the standard structure. A harmonic deformation tensor on \(\mathbb C^n\) which approaches a constant rapidly enough is actually constant. Harmonic deformation tensors with sufficiently small norm which are regular at infinity, in the sense that they have a smooth extension to the radial compactification of \(\mathbb C^n,\) are also constant.