One-sided negative sectional curvature and the holomorphic Liouville property

OpenAI

The OpenAI manuscript claims a domain in some sufficiently large fixed finite complex dimension, diffeomorphic to real Euclidean space, with a complete Kähler metric of real sectional curvature at most −1 and only constant bounded holomorphic functions. The curvature is not bounded below.

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What was already known

Yau asked whether a complete simply connected Kähler manifold with a uniform negative upper sectional-curvature bound must admit a nonconstant bounded holomorphic function. A separate pinched threefold concerns bounded coordinate systems and retains nonconstant bounded functions.

AI involvement AI-led

OpenAI lists this manuscript as model-produced and OpenAI-authored. The release does not identify a human who completed a check or explained this construction.

The institutionally credited OpenAI model produced the selected construction; contribution-specific autonomy beyond that is undocumented.

Importance Notable

The example answers the one-sided bounded-holomorphic-function question negatively in sufficiently high complex dimension.

Limitations

The exact fixed dimension and full assumptions need direct mathematical review. The Lean formalization for the separate pinched threefold does not check this one-sided holomorphic Liouville example.

Technical verification Reported

The one-sided theorem is reported in the manuscript map. The available Lean scope note expressly covers the separate pinched threefold, so its machine check cannot be transferred to this one-sided, only-constant-functions claim. No completed check of the selected theorem is documented.

Human understanding Few

No named human explanation of the construction's holomorphic Liouville mechanism is documented. Few is the missing-evidence default.

Correction and publication history

2026-10-18 · publication

If correct, the example answers the one-sided bounded-holomorphic-function question negatively in sufficiently high complex dimension.

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