Stein manifold Since a non-compact (open) Riemann surface always has a non-constant single-valued holomorphic function, and satisfies the
second axiom of countability, the open Riemann surface is in fact a
1-dimensional complex manifold possessing a holomorphic mapping into the complex plane \mathbb C. In fact, every non-compact Riemann surface has a holomorphic
immersion into the complex plane. The
Whitney embedding theorem tells us that every smooth
n-dimensional manifold can be
embedded as a smooth submanifold of \mathbb{R}^{2n}, whereas it is "rare" for a complex manifold to have a holomorphic embedding into \mathbb C^n. For example, for an arbitrary compact connected complex manifold
X, every holomorphic function on it is constant by Liouville's theorem, and so it cannot have any embedding into complex n-space. That is, for several complex variables, arbitrary complex manifolds do not always have holomorphic functions that are not constants. So, consider the conditions under which a complex manifold has a holomorphic function that is not a constant. Now if we had a holomorphic embedding of
X into \mathbb C^n, then the coordinate functions of \mathbb C^n would restrict to nonconstant holomorphic functions on
X, contradicting compactness, except in the case that
X is just a point. Complex manifolds that can be holomorphic embedded into \mathbb C^n are called Stein manifolds. Also Stein manifolds satisfy the second axiom of countability. A
Stein manifold is a complex
submanifold of the
vector space of
n complex dimensions. They were introduced by and named after Karl Stein (1951). A
Stein space is similar to a Stein manifold but is allowed to have singularities. Stein spaces are the analogues of
affine varieties or
affine schemes in algebraic geometry. If the univalent domain on \mathbb C^n is connection to a manifold, can be regarded as a
complex manifold and satisfies the separation condition described later, the condition for becoming a Stein manifold is to satisfy the holomorphic convexity. Therefore, the Stein manifold is the properties of the domain of definition of the (maximal)
analytic continuation of an analytic function.
Definition Suppose
X is a
paracompact complex manifolds of complex dimension n and let \mathcal O(X) denote the ring of holomorphic functions on
X. We call
X a
Stein manifold if the following conditions hold: •
X is holomorphically convex, i.e. for every compact subset K \subset X, the so-called
holomorphically convex hull, :\bar K = \left \{z \in X ; |f(z)| \leq \sup_{w \in K} |f(w)|, \ \forall f \in \mathcal O(X) \right \}, :is also a
compact subset of
X. •
X is
holomorphically separable.
Every non-compact (open) Riemann surface is a Stein manifold Let
X be a connected, non-compact (open)
Riemann surface. A
deep theorem of Behnke and Stein (1948) asserts that
X is a Stein manifold. Another result, attributed to
Hans Grauert and
Helmut Röhrl (1956), states moreover that every
holomorphic vector bundle on
X is trivial. In particular, every line bundle is trivial, so H^1(X, \mathcal O_X^*) =0 . The
exponential sheaf sequence leads to the following exact sequence: :H^1(X, \mathcal O_X) \longrightarrow H^1(X, \mathcal O_X^*) \longrightarrow H^2(X, \Z) \longrightarrow H^2(X, \mathcal O_X) Now
Cartan's theorem B shows that H^1(X,\mathcal{O}_X) = H^2(X,\mathcal{O}_X)=0 , therefore H^2(X,\Z) = 0. This is related to the solution of the multiplicative Cousin problem.
Levi problems Cartan extended Levi's problem to Stein manifolds. If the
relative compact open subset D\subset X of the Stein manifold X is a Locally pseudoconvex, then
D is a Stein manifold, and conversely, if
D is a Locally pseudoconvex, then
X is a Stein manifold. i.e. Then
X is a Stein manifold if and only if
D is locally the Stein manifold. This was proved by Bremermann by embedding it in a sufficiently high dimensional \mathbb{C}^n, and reducing it to the result of Oka. Also, Grauert proved for arbitrary complex manifolds
M. If the relative compact subset D\subset M of a arbitrary complex manifold
M is a strongly pseudoconvex on
M, then
M is a holomorphically convex (i.e. Stein manifold). Also,
D is itself a Stein manifold. And Narasimhan extended Levi's problem to
complex analytic space, a generalized in the singular case of complex manifolds. A Complex analytic space which admits a continuous strictly plurisubharmonic exhaustion function (i.e.strongly pseudoconvex) is Stein space. A pseudoconvex Complex analytic space is Stein space. Levi's problem remains unresolved in the following cases; Suppose that
X is a singular Stein space, D \subset\subset X . Suppose that for all p\in \partial D there is an open neighborhood U (p) so that U\cap D is Stein space. Is
D itself Stein? more generalized Suppose that
N be a Stein space and
f an injective, and also f :M \to N a Riemann unbranched domain, such that map
f is a locally pseudoconvex map (i.e. Stein morphism). Then
M is itself Stein ? and also, Suppose that
X be a Stein space and D = \bigcup_{n\in\mathbb{N}} D_n an increasing union of Stein open sets. Then
D is itself Stein ? This means that Behnke–Stein theorem, which holds for Stein manifolds, has not found a conditions to be established in Stein space.
K-complete Grauert introduced the concept of K-complete in the proof of Levi's problem. Let
X is complex manifold,
X is K-complete if, to each point x_0\in X, there exist finitely many holomorphic map f_1,\dots,f_k of
X into \Complex^p, p = p(x_0), such that x_0 is an isolated point of the set A = \{x\in X;f^{-1}f(x_0)\ (v=1,\dots,k)\}. This concept also applies to complex analytic space.
Properties and examples of Stein manifolds • The standard complex space \Complex^n is a Stein manifold. • Every domain of holomorphy in \Complex^n is a Stein manifold. • Every closed complex submanifold of a Stein manifold is also a Stein manifold. • Every Stein manifold of complex dimension
n can be embedded into \Complex^{2 n+1} by a
biholomorphic proper map. These facts imply that a Stein manifold is a closed complex submanifold of complex space, whose complex structure is that of the
ambient space (because the embedding is biholomorphic). • Every Stein manifold of (complex) dimension
n has the homotopy type of an
n-dimensional CW-Complex. • In one complex dimension the Stein condition can be simplified: a connected
Riemann surface is a Stein manifold
if and only if it is not compact. This can be proved using a version of the
Runge theorem for Riemann surfaces, due to Behnke and Stein. • Every Stein manifold
X is holomorphically spreadable, i.e. for every point x \in X, there are
n holomorphic functions defined on all of
X which form a local coordinate system when restricted to some open neighborhood of
x. • The first Cousin problem can always be solved on a Stein manifold. • Being a Stein manifold is equivalent to being a (complex)
strongly pseudoconvex manifold. The latter means that it has a strongly pseudoconvex (or
plurisubharmonic) exhaustive function, i.e. a smooth real function \psi on
X (which can be assumed to be a
Morse function) with i \partial \bar \partial \psi >0, such that the subsets \{z \in X \mid \psi (z)\leq c \} are compact in
X for every real number
c. This is a solution to the so-called
Levi problem, named after
E. E. Levi (1911). The function \psi invites a generalization of
Stein manifold to the idea of a corresponding class of compact complex manifolds with boundary called
Stein domain. A Stein domain is the preimage \{z \mid -\infty\leq\psi(z)\leq c\}. Some authors call such manifolds therefore strictly pseudoconvex manifolds. • Related to the previous item, another equivalent and more topological definition in complex dimension 2 is the following: a Stein surface is a complex surface
X with a real-valued Morse function
f on
X such that, away from the critical points of
f, the field of complex tangencies to the preimage X_c=f^{-1}(c) is a
contact structure that induces an orientation on
Xc agreeing with the usual orientation as the boundary of f^{-1}(-\infty, c). That is, f^{-1}(-\infty, c) is a Stein
filling of
Xc. Numerous further characterizations of such manifolds exist, in particular capturing the property of their having "many"
holomorphic functions taking values in the complex numbers. See for example
Cartan's theorems A and B, relating to
sheaf cohomology. In the
GAGA set of analogies, Stein manifolds correspond to
affine varieties. Stein manifolds are in some sense dual to the elliptic manifolds in complex analysis which admit "many" holomorphic functions from the complex numbers into themselves. It is known that a Stein manifold is elliptic if and only if it is
fibrant in the sense of so-called "holomorphic homotopy theory".
Complex projective varieties (compact complex manifold) Meromorphic function in one-variable complex function were studied in a compact (closed) Riemann surface, because since the
Riemann-Roch theorem (
Riemann's inequality) holds for compact Riemann surfaces (Therefore, the theory of compact Riemann surface can be regarded as the theory of (smooth (non-singular) projective)
algebraic curve over \mathbb{C}). In fact, compact Riemann surface had a non-constant single-valued meromorphic function, and also a compact Riemann surface had enough meromorphic functions. A compact one-dimensional complex manifold was a Riemann sphere \widehat\mathbb{C} \cong \mathbb{CP}^1. However, the abstract notion of a compact Riemann surface is always algebraizable (the
Riemann's existence theorem,
Kodaira embedding theorem), but it is not easy to verify which compact complex analytic spaces are algebraizable. In fact, Hopf found a class of compact complex manifolds without nonconstant meromorphic functions. However, there is a Siegel result that gives the necessary conditions for compact complex manifolds to be algebraic. The generalization of the Riemann-Roch theorem to several complex variables was first extended to compact analytic surfaces by Kodaira, Kodaira also extended the theorem to three-dimensional, and n-dimensional Kähler varieties. Serre formulated the Riemann–Roch theorem as a problem of dimension of
coherent sheaf cohomology, and also Serre proved
Serre duality. Cartan and Serre proved the following property: the cohomology group is finite-dimensional for a coherent sheaf on a compact complex manifold M. Riemann–Roch on a Riemann surface for a vector bundle was proved by
Weil in 1938. Hirzebruch
generalized the theorem to compact complex manifolds in 1994 and Grothendieck
generalized it to a relative version (relative statements about
morphisms). Next, the generalization of the result that "the compact Riemann surfaces are projective" to the high-dimension. In particular, consider the conditions that when embedding of compact complex submanifold
X into the complex projective space \mathbb{CP}^n. The
vanishing theorem (was first introduced by
Kodaira in 1953) gives the condition, when the sheaf cohomology group vanishing, and the condition is to satisfy a kind of
positivity. As an application of this theorem, the
Kodaira embedding theorem says that a compact
Kähler manifold M, with a Hodge metric, there is a complex-analytic embedding of
M into
complex projective space of enough high-dimension
N. In addition the
Chow's theorem shows that the complex analytic subspace (subvariety) of a closed complex projective space to be an algebraic that is, so it is the common zero of some homogeneous polynomials, such a relationship is one example of what is called Serre's
GAGA principle. The complex analytic sub-space(variety) of the complex projective space has both algebraic and analytic properties. Then combined with Kodaira's result, a compact Kähler manifold
M embeds as an algebraic variety. This result gives an example of a complex manifold with enough meromorphic functions. Broadly, the GAGA principle says that the geometry of projective complex analytic spaces (or manifolds) is equivalent to the geometry of projective complex varieties. The combination of analytic and algebraic methods for complex projective varieties lead to areas such as
Hodge theory. Also, the
deformation theory of compact complex manifolds has developed as Kodaira–Spencer theory. However, despite being a compact complex manifold, there are counterexample of that cannot be embedded in projective space and are not algebraic. Analogy of the Levi problems on the complex projective space \mathbb{CP}^n by Takeuchi. ==See also==