Chern-Ricci flows on noncompact complex manifolds (Q782481)

A famous conjecture of \textit{S.-T. Yau} [Proc. Symp. Pure Math. None, 619--625 (1991; Zbl 0739.32001)] states that a complete non-compact Kähler manifld with positive bisectional curvature is biholomorphic to \(\mathbb{C}^n\). A special case of this conjecture, namely when the manifold in addition has maximal volume growth, was recently proven by \textit{G. Liu} [Camb. J. Math. 7, No. 1--2, 33--70 (2019; Zbl 1479.53075)]. The paper under review gives a new proof, using the Kähler-Ricci flow. The proof uses several ideas and techniques. Most of the paper considers, in fact, the Chern-Ricci flow, which is an analogue of the Kähler-Ricci flow for non-Kähler manifolds. In that setting, the authors prove non-compact analogues of results due to \textit{V. Tosatti} and \textit{B. Weinkove} [J. Differ. Geom. 99, No. 1, 125--163 (2015; Zbl 1317.53092)] (characterising the length of time the flow can run) and a few other results, giving a good foundational understanding of the behaviour of the flow. The results of the paper should be important for the general problem of understanding the geometry of non-compact non-Kähler complex manifolds.