Spherical shells as obstacles to continuations of holomorphic mappings (Q803335)

A homological spherical shell in a complex manifold \(X\subset {\mathbb{C}}^ 2\) is the image of the sphere \(S^ 3\) under a holomorhic mapping, provided it is not homological to 0 in X. We will say that X possesses holomorphic (meromorphic) extensity property if each holomorphic (meromorphic) mapping f: \(H_ r\to X\) may be extended to a holomorphic (meromorphic) mapping of the unit polydisk to X. Here \(H_ r=\{(z,w)\in {\mathbb{C}}^ 2:| z| <r\), \(| w| <1\) or \(| z| <1\), \(1-r<| w| <1\}.\) The author establishes a number of results showing that holomorphically convex complex manifolds possess holomorphic (meromorphic) extensity property, iff they don't contain homological spherical shells.