Stein Manifolds and Holomorphic Mappings

Stein Manifolds and Holomorphic Mappings
Author: Franc Forstnerič
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2011-08-27
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3642222501

The main theme of this book is the homotopy principle for holomorphic mappings from Stein manifolds to the newly introduced class of Oka manifolds. The book contains the first complete account of Oka-Grauert theory and its modern extensions, initiated by Mikhail Gromov and developed in the last decade by the author and his collaborators. Included is the first systematic presentation of the theory of holomorphic automorphisms of complex Euclidean spaces, a survey on Stein neighborhoods, connections between the geometry of Stein surfaces and Seiberg-Witten theory, and a wide variety of applications ranging from classical to contemporary.

Extension of Holomorphic Functions

Extension of Holomorphic Functions
Author: Marek Jarnicki
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3110627698

This second extended edition of the classic reference on the extension problem of holomorphic functions in pluricomplex analysis contains a wealth of additional material, organized under the original chapter structure, and covers in a self-contained way all new and recent developments and theorems that appeared since the publication of the first edition about twenty years ago.

Explorations in Complex and Riemannian Geometry

Explorations in Complex and Riemannian Geometry
Author: John Bland
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2003
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821832735

This book contains contributions by an impressive list of leading mathematicians. The articles include high-level survey and research papers exploring contemporary issues in geometric analysis, differential geometry, and several complex variables. Many of the articles will provide graduate students with a good entry point into important areas of modern research. The material is intended for researchers and graduate students interested in several complex variables and complex geometry.

Minimal Surfaces from a Complex Analytic Viewpoint

Minimal Surfaces from a Complex Analytic Viewpoint
Author: Antonio Alarcón
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2021-03-10
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3030690563

This monograph offers the first systematic treatment of the theory of minimal surfaces in Euclidean spaces by complex analytic methods, many of which have been developed in recent decades as part of the theory of Oka manifolds (the h-principle in complex analysis). It places particular emphasis on the study of the global theory of minimal surfaces with a given complex structure. Advanced methods of holomorphic approximation, interpolation, and homotopy classification of manifold-valued maps, along with elements of convex integration theory, are implemented for the first time in the theory of minimal surfaces. The text also presents newly developed methods for constructing minimal surfaces in minimally convex domains of Rn, based on the Riemann–Hilbert boundary value problem adapted to minimal surfaces and holomorphic null curves. These methods also provide major advances in the classical Calabi–Yau problem, yielding in particular minimal surfaces with the conformal structure of any given bordered Riemann surface. Offering new directions in the field and several challenging open problems, the primary audience of the book are researchers (including postdocs and PhD students) in differential geometry and complex analysis. Although not primarily intended as a textbook, two introductory chapters surveying background material and the classical theory of minimal surfaces also make it suitable for preparing Masters or PhD level courses.

Stein Manifolds

Stein Manifolds
Author: Irena Majcen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2010
Genre:
ISBN:

In the dissertation we show that every class of the first de Rham cohomology group on a Stein manifold $X$ has a representative, which is a closed holomorphic 1-form without zeros. The second set of problems in the thesis is related to embedding open Riemann surfaces properly into ${\mathbb C}^2$. In all results regarding proper holomorphic embeddings of planar domains into ${\mathbb C}^2$ that we are familiar with, the planar domain is only allowed to have finitely many boundary curves. In the dissertation we construct proper holomorphic embeddings in ${\mathbb C}^2$ for certain planar domains having infinitely many boundary curves. Finding a proper embedding for a general open Riemann surface seems very difficult. It does not appear to be easier if we omit properness. Thus, it is also interesting to relate holomorphic embeddings with proper holomorphic embeddings. Given a bordered Riemann surface $R$, embedded in ${\mathbb C}^2$, we prove that certain infinitely connected domains $D \subset R$ without isolated boundary points admit a proper holomorphic embedding into ${\mathbb C}^2$. We conclude the thesis by proving a result on approximating certain proper smooth embeddings by proper holomorphic embeddings.