On hyperbolic embedding of complements of divisors and the limiting behavior of the Kobayashi–Rroyden metric

In the following three cases criteria are found for complements of divisors in compact complex manifolds to be hyperbolically embedded in the sense of Kobayashi: for divisors with normal crossings, for arbitrary divisors in complex surfaces, and for unions of hyperplanes in projective space. A criterion is given for two-dimensional polynomial polyhedra to be hyperbolically embedded, and Iitaka's conjecture about conditions for hyperbolicity of the complement of a set of projective lines is confirmed. Upper semicontinuity is proved for the Kobayashi–Royden pseudometrics and Kobayashi–Eisenman pseudovolumes of a family of complex manifolds containing degenerate fibers, and conditions are given under which the hyperbolic length (volume) on the smooth part of a degenerate fiber is the limit of the hyperbolic length (volume) on the nonsingular fibers.
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