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A uniformization theorem for complete Kähler manifolds with positive holomorphic bisectional curvature

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In the theory of complex geometry, one of the famous problems is the following conjecture of Greene and Wu [13] and Yau [33]: Suppose M is a complete noncompact Kähler manifold with positive holomorphic bisectional curvature; then M is biholomorphic to ℂn. In this paper we use the Ricci flow evolution equation to study this conjecture and prove the result that if M has bounded and positive curvature such that the L’ norm of the curvature on geodesic ball is small enough, then the conjecture is true. Our result gives an improvement on the results of Mok et al. [21] and Mok [22].

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Shi, WX. A uniformization theorem for complete Kähler manifolds with positive holomorphic bisectional curvature. J Geom Anal 8, 117–142 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02922111

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