Yau's question on bounded holomorphic functions: does a complete simply connected Kahler manifold with sectional curvature at most carry a nonconstant bounded holomorphic function?
Theorem 1.1: for some finite there is a domain , diffeomorphic to , with a complete Kahler metric satisfying and : every bounded holomorphic function is constant, so the Caratheodory pseudometric vanishes. This disproves the universal assertion in the one-sided question, and also answers Wu's 1967 bounded-domain question negatively under its hypotheses. The sectional curvatures are unbounded below, so the question under a two-sided bound remains open; the dimension is large and not made explicit.
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Canonical aliases: Yau's question on bounded holomorphic functions: does a complete simply connected Kahler manifold with sectional curvature at most $-a^2<0$ carry a nonconstant bounded holomorphic function? · Bounded holomorphic functions under negative curvature
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Theorem 1.1: for some finite there is a domain , diffeomorphic to , with a complete Kahler metric satisfying and : every bounded holomorphic function is constant, so the Caratheodory pseudometric vanishes. This disproves the universal assertion in the one-sided question, and also answers Wu's 1967 bounded-domain question negatively under its hypotheses. The sectional curvatures are unbounded below, so the question under a two-sided bound remains open; the dimension is large and not made explicit. parent of this event
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