Sharp dimension estimates of holomorphic functions and rigidity

Let M n be a complete noncompact Kahler manifold of complex dimension n with nonnegative holomorphic bisectional curvature. Denote by O d (M n ) the space of holomorphic functions of polynomial growth of degree at most d on M n . In this paper we prove that dimcod(M n ) ≤ dim c O [d] (C n ), for all d > 0, with equality for some positive integer d if and only if M n is holomorphically isometric to C n . We also obtain sharp improved dimension estimates when its volume growth is not maximal or its Ricci curvature is positive somewhere.

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