scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1058118

Publication date 4 May 1998

algebraic variety bibliography conjectures holomorphic curve hyperbolic manifold hypersurface Nevanlinna theory open problems projective manifold pseudodistance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation to algebraic numbers (11J68) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to several complex variables and analytic spaces (32-02) Nevanlinna theory; growth estimates; other inequalities of several complex variables (32A22) Invariant metrics and pseudodistances in several complex variables (32F45) Value distribution theory in higher dimensions (32H30) Hyperbolic and Kobayashi hyperbolic manifolds (32Q45)

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The author proposes a large series of open problems and conjectures of several complex variables at intersection with algebraic or hyperbolic geometry and number theory, with historical surveys, comments and rich informations on their present stage. He dedicated more than 20 years of researches to the subject and brought important contributions to their solution. The paper has three parts, each with several sections, as follows: \(\underline {1.\text{ Nevanlinna theory.}}\) 1.1. Transcendental Bézout problem: What kind of measures can provide a generalization of Stoll's average Bézout theorem? 1.2. Nevanlinna's inverse problem: Does it hold for \(f:\mathbb{C}^m \to P^n (\mathbb{C})\) with respect to hyperplanes in general position or for \(f: \mathbb{C}^m \to V\), \(f\) a dominant meromorphic map into a projective manifold \(V\) with respect to a union of hypersurfaces with simple normal crossings? 1.3. Order of convergence of Nevanlinna's defects: Specify Krutin's result for \(f\) -- roughly speaking -- as in 1.2. 1.4. Order of a meromorphic map into a projective manifold: Problems when the order is less than 2. 1.5. Holomorphic curves: Griffiths' conjectures about the defect relation and respectively, about a holomorphic curve into an Abelian variety \(A\) missing an ample divisor of \(A\); proposals to compute the constant in Noguchi's inequality of the second main theorem type, to apply Nevanlinna calculus to a moduli problem. \(\underline {2.\text{ Hyperbolic manifolds.}}\) 2.1. Finiteness and rigidity: Let \(X\) and \(Y\) be compact complex spaces, \(Y\)-hyperbolic. S. Lang's conjecture is discussed beginning with S. Kobayashi and T. Ochiai result till Noguchi's solution in 1992 (there are only a finite number of surjective meromorphic maps \(X\to Y)\) and a non-compact version by Makoto Suzuki. By fixing \(X\), Noguchi conjectures that Severi set \(\text{Sev} (X)= \{(f,Y)\); \(Y\) hyperbolic, \(f:X\to Y\) holomorphic and surjective\} is finite. Other problems refer to \(X\) and \(Y\) complete hyperbolic complex spaces with finite hyperbolic volume. 2.2. Hyperbolic fiber spaces and extension problems: To remark again the author's results and interesting existence problems. 2.3. Hypersurfaces of \(P^n(\mathbb{C})\): One deals with Kobayashi's conjectures (a generic hypersurface of large degree and its complement are hyperbolic). The author presents an existence theorem, which he proved together with K. Masuda. Significant examples, many of them new, are given. 2.4. Does any non-algebraic compact hyperbolic manifold exist? \(\underline{3. \text{ Algebraic and arithmetic pseudodistances.}}\) 3.1. Starting with Lang's conjecture on rational points, Noguchi proposes an algebraic hyperbolic pseudodistance on a complex algebraic variety \(V\). In 3.2. he defines an arithmetic one on an algebraic variety \(V\) over a number field. In both cases he uses chains of algebraic curves joining two points. He presents recent results by Demailly-Lempert-Shiffman, Kitayama, Kollar-Miyaoka-Mori and formulates problems. A large bibliography completes the work. Proofs are included where reference is not available. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0867.00037].

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