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Oka manifolds and Oka maps 13:10 Fri 29 Jan 10 :: Napier LG 23 :: Prof Franc Forstneric :: University of Ljubljana
In this survey lecture I will discuss a
new class of complex manifolds and of holomorphic maps
between them which I introduced in 2009
(F. Forstneric, Oka Manifolds, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris,
Ser. I, 347 (2009) 1017-1020).
Roughly speaking, a complex manifold Y is said to be
an Oka manifold if Y admits plenty of holomorphic maps
from any Stein manifold (or Stein space) X to Y,
in a certain precise sense. In particular, the inclusion
of the space of holomorphic maps of X to Y into the space of
continuous maps must be a weak homotopy equivalence.
One of the main results is that this class of manifolds
can be characterized by a simple Runge approximation property
for holomorphic maps from complex Euclidean spaces C^n to Y,
with approximation on compact convex subsets of C^n.
This answers in the affirmative a question posed by
M. Gromov in 1989. I will also discuss the Oka properties
of holomorphic maps and their characterization by
approximation properties.
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