Complex immersions in Kähler manifolds of positive holomorphic -Ricci curvature

The main purpose of this paper is to prove several connectedness theorems for complex immersions of closed manifolds in Kähler manifolds with positive holomorphic -Ricci curvature. In particular this generalizes the classical Lefschetz hyperplane section theorem for projective varieties. As an immediate geometric application we prove that a complex immersion of an -dimensional closed manifold in a simply connected closed Kähler -manifold with positive holomorphic -Ricci curvature is an embedding, provided that . This assertion for follows from the Fulton-Hansen theorem (1979).