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Publications and source records attributed to Christian Miebach.
We investigate the complex geometry of total spaces of reductive principal bundles over compact base spaces and establish a close relation between the Kähler property of the base, momentum maps for the action of a maximal compact subgroup on the total space, and the Kähler property of special equivariant compactifications. We provide many examples illustrating that the main result is optimal.
Using the theory of totally real number fields we construct a new class of compact complex non-K{ä}hler manifolds in every even complex dimension and study their analytic and geometric properties.
We show that the quotient of any bounded homogeneous domain by a unipotent discrete group of automorphisms is holomorphically separable. Then we give a necessary condition for the quotient to be Stein and prove that in some cases this condition is also sufficient.
We study meromorphic actions of unipotent complex Lie groups on compact Kähler manifolds using moment map techniques. We introduce natural stability conditions and show that sets of semistable points are Zariski-open and admit geometric quotients that carry compactifiable Kähler structures obtained by symplectic reduction. The relation of our complex-analytic theory to the work of Doran--Kirwan regarding the Geometric Invariant Theory of unipotent group actions on projective varieties is discussed in detail.
We determine all spherical algebraic subalgebras in any simple Lie algebra of real rank 1.
We systematically study Schottky group actions on homogeneous rational manifolds and find two new families besides those given by Nori's well-known construction. This yields new examples of non-Kähler compact complex manifolds having free fundamental groups. We then investigate their analytic and geometric invariants such as the Kodaira and algebraic dimension, the Picard group and the deformation theory, thus extending results due to Lárusson and to Seade and Verjovsky. As a byproduct, we see that the Schottky construction allows to recover examples of equivariant compactifications of SL(2,C)/Γfor Γa discrete free loxodromic subgroup of SL(2,C), previously obtained by A. Guillot.
We describe pseudoconvex non-Stein domains in primary Hopf surfaces using techniques developed by Hirschowitz.
Using the concept of inner integral curves defined by Hirschowitz we generalize a recent result by Kim, Levenberg and Yamaguchi concerning the obstruction of a pseudoconvex domain spread over a complex homogeneous manifold to be Stein. This is then applied to study the holomorphic reduction of pseudoconvex complex homogeneous manifolds X=G/H. Under the assumption that G is solvable or reductive we prove that X is the total space of a G-equivariant holomorphic fiber bundle over a Stein manifold such that all holomorphic functions on the fiber are constant.
In this paper we develop fundamental tools and methods to study meromorphic functions in an equivariant setup. As our main result we construct quotients of Rosenlicht-type for Stein spaces acted upon holomorphically by complex-reductive Lie groups and their algebraic subgroups. In particular, we show that in this setup invariant meromorphic functions separate orbits in general position. Applications to almost homogeneous spaces and principal orbit types are given. Furthermore, we use the main result to investigate the relation between holomorphic and meromorphic invariants for reductive group actions. As one important step in our proof we obtain a weak equivariant analogue of Narasimhan's embedding theorem for Stein spaces.
We consider actions of reductive complex Lie groups $G=K^C$ on Kähler manifolds $X$ such that the $K$--action is Hamiltonian and prove then that the closures of the $G$--orbits are complex-analytic in $X$. This is used to characterize reductive homogeneous Kähler manifolds in terms of their isotropy subgroups. Moreover we show that such manifolds admit $K$--moment maps if and only if their isotropy groups are algebraic.
We study the action of a real-reductive group $G=K\exp(\lie{p})$ on real-analytic submanifold $X$ of a Kähler manifold $Z$. We suppose that the action of $G$ extends holomorphically to an action of the complexified group $G^\mbb{C}$ such that the action of a maximal Hamiltonian subgroup is Hamiltonian. The moment map $μ$ induces a gradient map $μ_\lie{p}\colon X\to\lie{p}$. We show that $μ_\lie{p}$ almost separates the $K$--orbits if and only if a minimal parabolic subgroup of $G$ has an open orbit. This generalizes Brion's characterization of spherical Kähler manifolds with moment maps.
In this paper we investigate proper $\mbb{R}$--actions on hyperbolic Stein surfaces and prove in particular the following result: Let $D\subset\mbb{C}^2$ be a simply-connected bounded domain of holomorphy which admits a proper $\mbb{R}$--action by holomorphic transformations. The quotient $D/\mbb{Z}$ with respect to the induced proper $\mbb{Z}$--action is a Stein manifold. A normal form for the domain $D$ is deduced.
Let $G$ be a real-reductive Lie group and let $G_1$ and $G_2$ be two subgroups given by involutions. We show how the technique of gradient maps can be used in order to obtain a new proof of Matsuki's parametrization of the closed double cosets $G_1\backslash G/G_2$ by Cartan subsets. We also describe the elements sitting in non-closed double cosets.
Let $D$ be a bounded homogeneous domain in $\mbb{C}^n$ and let $Γ$ be a cyclic discrete subgroup of the automorphism group of $D$. It is shown that the complex space $D/Γ$ is Stein.
Let $X=G/K$ be an irreducible Hermitian symmetric space of the non-compact type and let $S\in G^\mbb{C}$ be the associated compression semi-group. Let $Γ$ be a discrete subgroup of $G$. We give a sufficient condition for $Γ\backslash S$ to be a Stein manifold. Moreover, we show that in general $Γ\backslash S$ is not Stein, which disproves a conjecture by Achab, Betten and Krötz.
We investigate the joint action of two real forms of a semi-simple complex Lie group S by left and right multiplication. After analyzing the orbit structure, we study the CR structure of closed orbits. The main results are an explicit formula of the Levi form of closed orbits and the determination of the Levi cone of generic orbits. Finally, we apply these results to prove q-completeness of certain invariant domains in S.