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Uniformisation of Foliations by Curves

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Holomorphic Dynamical Systems

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These lecture notes provide a full discussion of certain analytic aspects of the uniformisation theory of foliations by curves on compact Kähler manifolds, with emphasis on convexity properties and their consequences on positivity properties of the corresponding canonical bundles.

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Brunella, M. (2010). Uniformisation of Foliations by Curves. In: Gentili, G., Guenot, J., Patrizio, G. (eds) Holomorphic Dynamical Systems. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 1998. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13171-4_3

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