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Homotopic properties of holomorphic mappings

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery

Let $W$ be a domain in a complex manifold $M$. In 2008 B. J\"oricke found a way to extend holomorphic functions from $W$ to another manifold and show that it is the envelope of holomorphy of $W$ and in 2013 F. L\'arusson and the speaker used a similar approach to subextend plurisubharmonic functions from $W$ to a complex manifold. To define these manifolds the authors considered the space $A(W,M)$ of analytic disks in $M$ whose boundaries lie in $M$. The new manifolds were defined as the quotients of this space by equivalence relations, where equivalent analytic disks can be connected by a continuous path or a homotopy in $A(W,M)$. In 1983 L. Rudolph introduced quasipositive elements of braid groups that are fundamental groups of the complements to some set W of planes in Cn. He proved that these elements are boundaries of analytic disks in $A(W,\mathbb C^n)$ and form a semi- group. The talk will be divided in two parts. In the first part we will discuss general constructions of extensions of Riemann domains and subextensions of plurisubharmonic functions. In the second part we will address the notion of quasipositive elements in general situation and explain why they form a semigroup. An important question is whether this semigroup is embeddable into the fundamental group. That is equivalent of asking whether two analytic disks are homotopic as analytic disks when their boundaries are equivalent in the fundamental group. A similar problem was studied by M. Gromov and, recently, by F. Forstneri\v c and his colleagues for homotopies of submanifolds in elliptic manifolds. In our case the ambient manifold is hyperbolic and the answer is not known. In the special case is when $W$ is an analytic variety in $M$ we will show that this problem can be reduced to the problem involving only real disks.

Mathematics; Several complex variables and analytic spaces; Potential theory; Global analysis

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Author affiliation: Syracuse University

2017-02-08

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/59645

Unreviewed

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