Complex n-dimensional manifolds with a real n(2)-dimensional automorphism group

Abstract

The main theorem of this article is a characterization of non compact simply connected complete Kobayashi hyperbolic complex manifold of dimension n >= 2 with real n(2)-dimensional holomorphic automorphism group. Together with the earlier work [11, 12] and [13] of Isaev and Krantz, this yields a complete classification of the simply-connected, complete Kobayashi hyperbolic manifolds with dim(R) Aut (M) >= (dim(C) M)(2).