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Jan 11, 2019 at 19:43 vote accept Julian Chaidez
Dec 12, 2018 at 9:45 history edited Ben McKay CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dec 12, 2018 at 9:38 history edited Dmitri Panov CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dec 12, 2018 at 9:14 comment added Dmitri Panov Julian, concerning your second comment, what I wrote is different from Mostov rigidity. The claim is the following: if a complex 2-surface is homeomorphic to a ball quotient, then it is byholomorphic to it. Mostov rigidity is a statement about two ball quotients - if they have the same fundamental group they are isometric. But a priori one could imaging that there is a complex surface that is diffeomorphic to a ball quotient, but is not byholomorphic to a ball quotient. Yau's theorem rules this out.
Dec 12, 2018 at 1:47 comment added Julian Chaidez For the case (iii), do you mean that the answer is positive for negative sectional curvature? If so, I think it might follow from Mostow- rigidity applied to the isometry group of the complex hyperbolic ball $\mathbb{B}^n$. This was actually my motivation for this question: mathoverflow.net/questions/317362/mostow-rigidity-for-complex-hyperbolic-manifolds.
Dec 12, 2018 at 1:47 comment added Julian Chaidez Excellent, this is all very helpful. I probably should have thought about Questions 1 and 2 more before asking, Riemann surfaces seem to be a good source of counter-examples there.
Dec 11, 2018 at 23:46 history answered Dmitri Panov CC BY-SA 4.0