COMPACTNESS OF CERTAIN FAMILIES OF PSEUDO-HOLOMORPHIC MAPPINGS INTO ${\mathbb C}^n$ (Q4809768)

The authors prove a nice result on normal families of injective \(J\)-holomorphic maps from an almost complex domain \((D,J)\) into \(({\mathbb C}^n, J_{\text{st}})\), where \(J_{st}\) is the standard complex structure. More precisely, let \(D\) be a relatively compact domain in an almost complex manifold \((M,J)\), endowed with a fixed \(J\)-Hermitian metric \(h\), and let \(p\) be a fixed point of \(D\). For any unitary map \(A\) from \(T_pM\) into \({\mathbb C}^n\), let us denote by \(F_{A, \delta, \varepsilon}\) the family of all \(J\)-holomorphic maps \(f: D \to {\mathbb C}^n\) such that: a) \(f(p) = 0\); b) \(df| _p = A\); c) \(\| f^* J_{\text{st}} - J\| < \varepsilon\) in a suitable \({\mathcal C}^1\)-norm; d) there exists a convex set \(E\) such that \(r \cdot E \subset f(D)\subset E\) for some \(\delta\leq r \leq 1\). The authors prove that for any \(\delta >0\) and all sufficiently small \(\varepsilon\), the family \(F_{A, \delta, \varepsilon}\) is compact w.r.t the compact convergence topology. In case \( D \subset {\mathbb C}^n\), the result establishes an interesting generalization to the non-convex case of a well-known normal family result of S. Frankel, concerning holomorphic maps with values in convex domains.