Complex hypersurfaces diffeomorphic to affine spaces

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Article

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Mathematics

Publication Date

1994

Abstract

This note is related to the following two basic problems in Algebraic Geometry.

PROBLEM A. Topological characterization of the complex affine space Cn. Let X be an n-dimensional smooth affine variety over C. Is it possible to impose some topological conditions on X which imply that X is isomorphic to the affine space Cn as algebraic varieties? Such isomorphic varieties are denoted in this note by X≅Cn.

PROBLEM B. Existence of exotic embeddings of Cn into Cn+1 (The Abhyankar-Sathaye Conjecture). Assume that X: f = 0 is a smooth hypersurface in Cn+1 such that X≅Cn. Does there exist an algebraic automorphism h : Cn+1→Cn+1 such that f◦h is a linear form? This can be restated as whether any embedding of Cn into Cn+1 is equivalent to a linear embedding.

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This article was originally published in Kodai Mathematical Journal. The full-text article from the publisher can be found here.

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Kodai Mathematical Journal

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Copyright © 1994 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics

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