Effective actions of the unitary group on complex manifolds

For $n\ge 2$ we classify all connected n-dimensional complex manifolds admitting effective actions of the special unitary group SU_n by biholomorphic transformations.

We show that if the group of holomorphic automorphisms of a connected complex manifold $M$ of dimension $n$ is isomorphic as a topological group equipped with the compact-open topology to the automorphism group of the unit ball $B^n\subset\CC^n$, then $M$ is biholomorphically equivalent to either $B^n$ or $\CC\PP^n\setminus\bar{B^n}$.

In our article of 2002 joint with N. Kruzhilin we showed that every connected complex manifold of dimension $n\ge 2$ that admits an effective transitive action by holomorphic transformations of the unitary group ${\rm U}_n$ is biholomorphic to the quotient of a Hopf manifold by the action of ${\mathbb Z}_m$ for some integer $m$ satisfying $(n,m)=1$. In this note, we complement the above result with an explicit description of all effective transitive actions of ${\rm U}_n$ on ...

We show that if the group of holomorphic automorphisms of a connected Stein manifold $M$ is isomorphic to that of ${\bf C}^n$ as a topological group equipped with the compact-open topology, then $M$ is biholomorphically equivalent to ${\bf C}^n$.

We determine all holomorphically separable complex manifolds of dimension $p+q$ which admits a smooth envelope of holomorphy such that the general indefinite unitary group of size $p+q$ acts effectively by holomorphic transformations. Also we give exact description of the automorphism groups of those complex manifolds. As an application we consider a characterization of those complex manifolds by their automorphism groups.

In this paper we continue to study actions of high-dimensional Lie groups on complex manifolds. We give a complete explicit description of all pairs $(M,G)$, where $M$ is a connected complex manifold $M$ of dimension $n\ge 2$, and $G$ is a connected Lie group of dimension $n^2+1$ acting effectively and properly on $M$ by holomorphic transformations. This result complements a classification obtained earlier by the first author for $n^2+2\le\hbox{dim} G<n^2+2n$ and a classical ...

We explicitly classify all pairs $(M,G)$, where $M$ is a connected complex manifold of dimension $n\ge 2$ and $G$ is a connected Lie group acting properly and effectively on $M$ by holomorphic transformations and having dimension $d_G$ satisfying $n^2+2\le d_G<n^2+2n$. These results extend -- in the complex case -- the classical description of manifolds admitting proper actions of groups of sufficiently high dimensions. They also generalize some of the author's earlier work o...

We consider complex manifolds that admit actions by holomorphic transformations of classical simple real Lie groups and classify all such manifolds in a natural situation. Under our assumptions, which require the group at hand to be dimension-theoretically large with respect to the manifold on which it is acting, our classification result states that the manifolds which arise are described precisely as invariant open subsets of certain complex flag manifolds associated to the...

In this article we show how to calculate the group of automorphisms of flat K\"ahler manifolds. Moreover we are interested in the problem of classification of such manifolds up to biholomorphism. We consider these problems from two points of view. The first one treats the automorphism group as a subgroup of the group of affine transformations, while in the second one we analyze it using automorphisms of complex tori. This leads us to the analogues of the Bieberbach theorems i...

We prove a characterization theorem for the unit polydisc $\Delta^n\subset\CC^n$ in the spirit of a recent result due to Kodama and Shimizu. We show that if $M$ is a connected $n$-dimensional complex manifold such that (i) the group $\hbox{Aut}(M)$ of holomorphic automorphisms of $M$ acts on $M$ with compact isotropy subgroups, and (ii) $\hbox{Aut}(M)$ and $\hbox{Aut}(\Delta^n)$ are isomorphic as topological groups equipped with the compact-open topology, then $M$ is holomorp...