Nonequidimensional value distribution theory and meromorphic connections (Q752907)

We quote from the introduction: ``This is a sequel to the paper in ibid. 55, 213-251 (1987; Zbl 0623.32018) in which we introduced the use of meromorphic connections to handle nonequidimensional value distribution theory. The meromorphic connection is chosen so that the divisor has zero second fundamental form with respect to the meromorphic connection. When we have more than one divisor, they must have zero second fundamental form with respect to the same meromorphic connection... For the method of meromorphic connections [loc. cit.], to consider different homogeneous coordinates necessitates the use of different meromorphic connections. One has to modify the method in the cited paper and consider what can be called a value distribution theory for meromorphic connections. In this paper we carry out such a modification. As a result of the modification done here, we can handle the case of divisors which have zero second fundamental forms with respect to meromorphic connections with the same pole order. In particular, one can handle the situation of a collection of Fermat curves with respect to different homogeneous coordinates. An upper bound of the sum of defects for Fermat curves of degree d in \({\mathbb{P}}_ 2\) in different coordinate systems is 1603/d. This is still more than the upper bound of 6/d for Fermat curves of degree d in \({\mathbb{P}}_ 2\) in the same coordinate system but is far better than the upper bound of the order of \(d^ 2\) for Fermat curves of degree d in \({\mathbb{P}}_ 2\) in different coordinate systems obtained by using the Veronese map. Besides the example of Fermat curves, this method can be applied to families of divisors of degree d in \({\mathbb{P}}_ n\) with the property that for some fixed e and for every divisor X there exists a homogeneous coordinate system \([w_ 0,...,w_ n]\) in \({\mathbb{P}}_ n\) which may depend on X such that X is defined by a polynomial of the form \(\sum^{n}_{v=0}P_ v(w_ 0,...,w_ n)w_ v^{d-e},\) where \(P_ v\) is a polynomial. There exists a meromorphic connection of pole order no more than \((n+1)e+3\) with respect to which the second fundamental form X vanishes. We get an upper bound C(n,e)/d for the sum of the defects of a family of such divisors where C(n,e) is a constant depending only on n and k.''... The above results proved in this paper were announced in Lect. Notes Math. 1351, 285-311 (1988; Zbl 0668.32024).