Noncritical holomorphic functions on Stein manifolds.

DOI10.1007/BF02392963zbMATH Open1064.32021arXivmath/0211112OpenAlexW1973768104MaRDI QIDQ1886152FDOQ1886152

Authors: Franc Forstnerič 

Publication date: 15 November 2004

Published in: Acta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that every Stein manifold X of dimension n admits [(n+1)/2] holomorphic functions with pointwise independent differentials, and this number is maximal for every n. In particular, X admits a holomorphic function without critical points; this extends a result of Gunning and Narasimhan from 1967 who constructed such functions on open Riemann surfaces. Furthermore, every surjective complex vector bundle map from the tangent bundle TX onto the trivial bundle of rank q < n=dim X is homotopic to the differential of a holomorphic submersion of X to C^q. It follows that every complex subbundle E in the tangent bundle TX with trivial quotient bundle TX/E is homotopic to the tangent bundle of a holomorphic foliation of X. If X is parallelizable, it admits a submersion to C^{n-1} and nonsingular holomorphic foliations of any dimension; the question whether such X also admits a submersion (=immersion) in C^n remains open. Our proof involves a blend of techniques (holomorphic automorphisms of Euclidean spaces, solvability of the di-bar equation with uniform estimates, Thom's jet transversality theorem, Gromov's convex integration method). A result of possible independent interest is a lemma on compositional splitting of biholomorphic mappings close to the identity (Theorem 4.1).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211112

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zbMATH Keywords

Stein manifoldsholomorphic foliationsholomorphic submersionshomotopy principlenoncritical holomorphic functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stein spaces (32E10) Holomorphic bundles and generalizations (32L05) Holomorphic functions of several complex variables (32A10) Topological aspects of complex manifolds (32Q55) Stein manifolds (32Q28)

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