Proper holomorphic mappings of the spectral unit ball

Zwonek, Włodzimierz

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09512-9

Proper holomorphic mappings of the spectral unit ball
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Abstract:

We prove an Alexander type theorem for the spectral unit ball $\Omega _{n}$ showing that there are no non-trivial proper holomorphic mappings in $\Omega _{n}$, $n\geq 2$.

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