Semisimplicity of the group of biholomorphisms of the universal covering of a compact complex manifold with ample canonical bundle (Q752913)

Let M be a connected compact complex manifold with ample canonical bundle and \(\tilde M\) its universal covering. The author studies the group \(Aut(\tilde M)\) of biholomorphic transformations of \(\tilde M\) which is a Lie group since it preserves a Kähler metric. It is proved that the identity component of this group is a real semisimple Lie group without compact factors. If in addition \(\dim M=2\) then exactly one of the following possibilities is valid: \(\tilde M\) is the 2-ball; \(\tilde M\) is the 2-disk; \(Aut(\tilde M)\) acts properly discontinuously on \(\tilde M\) and contains the group of deck transformations as a subgroup of a finite index.