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Kobayashi-Royden pseudometric on contractible surfaces

Complex Variables 2025-09-09 v1

Abstract

We describe a family of smooth contractible algebraic surfaces XX different from \C2\C^2 such that XX admits dominant holomorphic maps from \C2\C^2 and there is a unique line EE in XX for which the Kobayashi-Royden pseudometric vanishes on the tangent bundle over XEX\setminus E.

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@article{arxiv.2509.06874,
  title  = {Kobayashi-Royden pseudometric on contractible surfaces},
  author = {Shulim Kaliman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.06874},
  year   = {2025}
}

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9 pages

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