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Group Actions in Several Complex Variables: A Survey

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We give a survey on some recent developments about group actions in several complex variables, including rigidity of the automorphism groups of the invariant domains in Stein homogenous spaces under complex reductive groups, and extension and rigidity of the proper holomorphic mappings of the domains in \(\mathbb C^n\) with symmetries.

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Deng, F., Ning, J., Zhang, H., Zhou, X. (2018). Group Actions in Several Complex Variables: A Survey. In: Byun, J., Cho, H., Kim, S., Lee, KH., Park, JD. (eds) Geometric Complex Analysis. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 246. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1672-2_9

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