Taut and tight complex manifolds (1970)

Taut and tight manifolds, introduced recently by H. Wu, are characterized as follows. Let <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper D"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>D</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">D</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> denote the open unit disk in <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper C"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>C</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">C</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula>. The complex manifold <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper N"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">N</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> is taut iff the set <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper A left-parenthesis upper D comma upper N right-parenthesis"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>A</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>D</mml:mi> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">A(D,N)</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> of holomorphic maps from <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper D"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>D</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">D</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> into <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper N"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">N</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> is a normal family. If <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="d"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>d</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">d</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> is a metric inducing the topology on <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper N comma left-parenthesis upper N comma d right-parenthesis"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mi>d</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">N,(N,d)</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> is tight iff <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper A left-parenthesis upper D comma upper N right-parenthesis"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>A</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>D</mml:mi> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">A(D,N)</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> is equicontinuous. It is also shown that every taut manifold is tight in a suitable metric.