Semialgebraic universal covers and bounded domains
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Proves the Kollár–Pardon conjecture: the semialgebraic universal covers of connected normal projective complex varieties are exactly products D×\mathbb C^m× F, with D bounded symmetric and F simply connected, normal, and projective. A universal cover is quasi-projective exactly when the bounded symmetric factor is absent. In particular, a smooth projective variety covered by ℂ^(n) has a finite étale cover by an abelian variety.
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Semialgebraic universal covers of normal projective varieties
We prove the Kollár–Pardon conjecture: the universal cover of a connected normal projective complex variety is biholomorphic to a semialgebraic open subset of a projective variety if and only if it is a product of a bounded symmetric domain, a complex affine space, and a simply connected normal projective variety.
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Symmetry of semialgebraic bounded domains with compact quotient
Every nonempty connected semialgebraic bounded open subset of a complex affine variety admitting a properly discontinuous cocompact group of biholomorphisms is smooth and biholomorphic to a bounded symmetric domain. This answers the bounded-domain question of Kollár and Pardon affirmatively.
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