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Curvature Characterization of Compact Hermitian Symmetric Spaces

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In the study of complex manifolds the following conjecture is a well-known and natural analog of the elliptic case of the uniformization theorem.

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Wu, HH. (1991). Curvature Characterization of Compact Hermitian Symmetric Spaces. In: Wu, HH. (eds) Contemporary Geometry. The University Series in Mathematics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7950-8_17

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