Rigidity of proper holomorphic maps between symmetric domains (Q688317)

The rigidity problem for holomorphic maps between bounded symmetric domains is considered. The main result is as follows: Let \((\Omega_ 1, g_ 1)\) and \((\Omega_ 2, g_ 2)\) be bounded symmetric domains. Suppose that \(\Omega_ 1\) is irreducible and \(\text{rank} (\Omega_ 1) \geq \text{rank} (\Omega_ 2) \geq 2\). Then any proper holomorphic map \(f:\Omega_ 1 \to \Omega_ 2\) is necessarily a totally geodesic isometric embedding (up to normalizing constants). This theorem resolves a conjecture of Mok.