A characterization of products of balls by their isotropy groups

In this paper we will characterize products of balls – especially the ball and the polydisc – in by properties of the isotropy group of a single point. It will be shown that such a characterization is possible in the class of Siegel domains of the second kind, a class that extends the class of bounded homogeneous domains, and that such a characterization is no longer possible in the class of bounded domains with noncompact automorphism groups. The main result is that a Siegel domain of the second kind is biholomorphically equivalent to a product of balls, iff there is a point such that the isotropy group of p contains a torus of dimension n. As an application it will be proved that the only domains biholomorphically equivalent to a Siegel domain of the second kind and to a Reinhardt domain are exactly the domains biholomorphically equivalent to a product of b alls. Received: 27 February 1998 / In final form: 6 August 1998     

Asymptotic expansions and Hua-harmonic functions on bounded homogeneous domains

Let D be a homogeneous Siegel domain of type II. We prove that every bounded Hua-harmonic function F on D is pluriharmonic. The proof is based on asymptotic expansion of F. The author was partly supported by KBN grant 1 P03A 018 26, Foundation for Polish Sciences, Subsidy 3/99, and by the European Commission via the TMR Network ``Harmonic Analysis', contract no. ERB FMRX-CT97-0159.     

On symplectic representations of normal j-algebras and their application to Xu's realizations of Siegel domains

We present a canonical construction of an injective normal symplectic representation of a given normal j-algebra. On the other hand, the image of the holomorphic map corresponding to any normal symplectic representation is described as a subset of the Siegel upper half plane by using vector spaces of matrices satisfying certain axioms. Combining these results, we naturally obtain Xu's realization of homogeneous Siegel domains [Y.C. Xu, Automorphism groups of homogeneous bounded domains, Acta Math. Sinica 19 (1976) 161-191; Y.C. Xu, On the isomorphism of homogeneous bounded domains, Acta Math. Sinica 20 (1977) 248-266].     

Compactifying coverings of 3-manifolds

If a finitely presented groupG is negatively curved, automatic or asynchronously automatic thenG has an asynchronously bounded “almost prefix closed” combing. Results in [Br₁] and [E] imply that the fundamental group of any closed 3-manifold satisfying Thurston's geometrization conjecture has an asynchronously bounded, almost prefix closed combing. MAIN THEOREM. IfM is a compactP ²-irreducible 3-manifold,π ₁ (M) has an asynchronously bounded, almost prefix closed combing, andH, a subgroup ofπ ₁ (M), is quasiconvex with respect to this combing, then the cover ofM corresponding toH is a missing boundary manifold.     

A characterization of domains in <Emphasis Type="Bold">C</Emphasis><Superscript>2</Superscript> with noncompact automorphism group

Let D be a bounded domain in C ² with a non-compact group of holomorphic automorphisms. Model domains for D are obtained under the hypotheses that at least one orbit accumulates at a boundary point near which the boundary is smooth, real analytic and of finite type. The author was supported by DST (India) Grant No.: SR/S4/MS-283/05 and in part by a grant from UGC under DSA-SAP, Phase IV.     

Tube domain and an orbit of a complex triangular group

Let w be a complex symmetric matrix of order r, and Δ ₁(w), . . . , Δ _r (w) the principal minors of w. If w belongs to the Siegel right half-space, then it is known that Re (Δ _k (w)/Δ _k-1(w)) > 0 for k = 1, . . . , r. In this paper we study this property in three directions. First we show that this holds for general symmetric right half-spaces. Second we present a series of non-symmetric right half-spaces with this property. We note that case-by-case verifications up to dimension 10 tell us that there is only one such irreducible non-symmetric tube domain. The proof of the property reduces to two lemmas. One is entirely generalized to non-symmetric cases as we prove in this paper. This is the third direction. As a byproduct of our study, we show that the basic relative invariants associated to a homogeneous regular open convex cone Ω studied earlier by the first author are characterized as the irreducible factors of the determinant of right multiplication operators in the complexification of the clan associated to Ω.     

Uniform boundedness of level structures on abelian varieties over complex function fields

Let X = Ω/Γ be a smooth quotient of a bounded symmetric domain Ω by an arithmetic subgroup . We prove the following generalization of Nadel's result: for any non-negative integer g, there exists a finite étale cover X_g = Ω/Γ(g) of X determined by a subgroup depending only on g, such that for any compact Riemann surface R of genus g and any non-constant holomorphic map f : R → X_g^* from R into the Satake-Baily-Borel compactification X_g^* of X_g, the image f(R) lies in the boundary ∂X_g: = X^*_g\X_g. Nadel proved it for g = 0 or 1. Moreover, for any positive integer n and any non-negative integer g≥0, we show that there exists a positive number a(n,g) depending only on n and g with the following property: a principally polarized non-isotrivial n-dimensional abelian variety over a complex function field of genus g does not have a level-N structure for N≥a(n,g). This was proved by Nadel for g = 0 or 1, and by Noguchi for arbitrary g under the additional hypothesis that the abelian variety has non-empty singular fibers.     

Compact Toeplitz operators via the Berezin transform on bounded symmetric domains

Let be an irreducible bounded symmetric domain of genusp, h(x, y) its Jordan triple determinant, andA ² () the standard weighted Bergman space of holomorphic functions on square-integrable with respect to the measureh(z, z) ^–p dz. Extending the recent result of Axler and Zheng for =D, =p=2 (the unweighted Bergman space on the unit disc), we show that ifS is a finite sum of finite products of Toeplitz operators onA ² () and is sufficiently large, thenS is compact if and only if the Berezin transform ofS tends to zero asz approaches . An analogous assertion for the Fock space is also obtained.The author's research was supported by GA AV R grant A1019701 and GA R grant 201/96/0411.     

Neighborhoods of Leviq-convex domains

We consider bounded and q-complete domains in C ⁿ with C ² boundary. We show that they enjoy special q-convexity properties, i.e., they admit q-convex bounded exhaustion function and their closure do have a fundamental system of (q + 1)-complete neighborhoods. Moreover, we produce an example of a q- complete domain (which we called the q-worm) with smooth boundary whose closure does not possess a fundamental system of q-complete neighborhoods. Finally, extensions of these results to p-complete manifolds are given.     

Weighted Composition Operators from H ∞ to the Bloch Space of a Bounded Homogeneous Domain

Let D be a bounded homogeneous domain in ℂ ⁿ . In this paper, we study the bounded and the compact weighted composition operators mapping the Hardy space H ^∞(D) into the Bloch space of D. We characterize the bounded weighted composition operators, provide operator norm estimates, and give sufficient conditions for compactness. We prove that these conditions are necessary in the case of the unit ball and the polydisk. We then show that if D is a bounded symmetric domain, the bounded multiplication operators from H ^∞(D) to the Bloch space of D are the operators whose symbol is bounded.     

Dimensions of very ample pluricanonical subsystems for compact quotients of bounded symmetric domains

A compact complex manifold X obtained by taking quotient of a bounded symmetric domain has an ample canonical line bundle. We prove that the dimension of very ample pluricanonical subsystem is strictly bigger than 2n, where n is the dimension of X. Received: 23 June 2000 / Revised version: 30 March 2001     

Complex geodesics in a class of convex bounded Reinhardt domains

We find explicitly all complex geodesics in a class of convex bounded Reinhardt domains ofC ⁿ, which are a generalization of complex ellipsoids. Entrata in Redazione il 19 maggio 1998.     

L q -Estimates of spherical functions and an invariant mean-value property

We find someL ^q -estimates for the spherical functions on Cartan domains. As an application we prove that if the rank of the Cartan domainD is greater than one, then for any 1<-q<, the invariant mean-value property forL ^q -function onD does not imply harmonicity (the converse is known to be true even in the context of general non-compact Riemannian symmetric spacesG/K).     

C k -estimates for the -equation on convex domains of finite type

For a bounded convex domain with C^∞ smooth boundary of finite type m and q=1, . . . ,n−1, we construct a -solving integral operator T*_q such that for all k ∈ ℕ and the usual C^k and -norms the operator is continuous.     

Complex<Emphasis Type="BoldItalic">n</Emphasis>-dimensional manifolds with a real<Emphasis Type="BoldItalic">n</Emphasis><Superscript>2</Superscript>-dimensional automorphism group

The main theorem of this article is a characterization of non compact simply connected complete Kobayashi hyperbolic complex manifold of dimension n≽ 2 with real n ²-dimensional holomorphic automorphism group. Together with the earlier work [11, 12] and [13] of Isaev and Krantz, this yields a complete classification of the simply-connected, complete Kobayashi hyperbolic manifolds with dim_ℝ Aut (M) ≽ (dim_ℂ M)².     

Hankel operators on the Bergman spaces of strongly pseudoconvex domains

We characterize functions fL ²(D) such that the Hankel operators H_f are, respectively, bounded and compact on the Bergman spaces of bounded strongly pseudoconvex domains.Research partially supported by a grant of the National Science Foundation.     

Hyperbolic elements in negatively curved groups

We show that in a negatively curved groupG the conjugacy class of any infinite cyclic subgroup contains a straight element, an elementg with |g ⁿ |=n|g|, and thus the translation number of an element in a negatively curved group is rational with uniformly bounded denominator. We also find an upper bound on the cardinality of a finite normal subgroup.     

Backward iteration in strongly convex domains

We prove that a backward orbit with bounded Kobayashi step for a hyperbolic, parabolic or strongly elliptic holomorphic self-map of a bounded strongly convex C² domain in Cd necessarily converges to a repelling or parabolic boundary fixed point, generalizing previous results obtained by Poggi-Corradini in the unit disk and by Ostapyuk in the unit ball of Cd.