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Effective Actions of the Unitary Group on Complex Manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

A. V. Isaev
Affiliation:
Centre for Mathematics and Its Applications, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia, e-mail: [email protected]
N. G. Kruzhilin
Affiliation:
Department of Complex Analysis, Steklov Mathematical Institute, 42 Vavilova St. Moscow 117966, Russia, e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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We classify all connected $n$-dimensional complex manifolds admitting effective actions of the unitary group ${{U}_{n}}$ by biholomorphic transformations. One consequence of this classification is a characterization of ${{\mathbb{C}}^{n}}$ by its automorphism group.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2002

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