We consider the Weil–Petersson gradient vector field of renormalized volume on the deformation space of convex cocompact hyperbolic structures on (relatively) acylindrical manifolds. In this paper we prove the conjecture that the flow has a global attracting fixed point at the unique structure $M_{\rm geod}$ with minimum convex core volume.

Let A be an abelian scheme of dimension at least four over a $\mathbb {Z}$ -finitely generated integral domain R of characteristic zero, and let L be an ample line bundle on A. We prove that the set of smooth hypersurfaces D in A representing L is finite by showing that the moduli stack of such hypersurfaces has only finitely many R-points. We accomplish this by using level structures to interpolate finiteness results between this moduli stack and the stack of canonically polarized varieties.

We define and study jet bundles in the geometric orbifold category. We show that the usual arguments from the compact and the logarithmic settings do not all extend to this more general framework. This is illustrated by simple examples of orbifold pairs of general type that do not admit any global jet differential, even if some of these examples satisfy the Green–Griffiths–Lang conjecture. This contrasts with an important result of Demailly (Holomorphic Morse inequalities and the Green-Griffiths-Lang conjecture, Pure Appl. Math. Q. 7 (2011), 1165–1207) proving that compact varieties of general type always admit jet differentials. We illustrate the usefulness of the study of orbifold jets by establishing the hyperbolicity of some orbifold surfaces, that cannot be derived from the current techniques in Nevanlinna theory. We also conjecture that Demailly's theorem should hold for orbifold pairs with smooth boundary divisors under a certain natural multiplicity condition, and provide some evidence towards it.

This article establishes a sufficient condition for Kobayashi hyperbolicity of unbounded domains in terms of curvature. Specifically, when $\Omega \,\subset \,{{\mathbb{C}}^{n}}$ corresponds to a sub-level set of a smooth, real-valued function Ψ such that the form $\omega \,=\,\mathbf{i}\partial \bar{\partial }\Psi $ is Kähler and has bounded curvature outside a bounded subset, then this domain admits a hermitian metric of strictly negative holomorphic sectional curvature.

Using vector fields on logarithmic jet spaces we obtain some new positive results for the logarithmic Kobayashi conjecture about the hyperbolicity of complements of curves in the complex projective plane. We are interested here in the cases where logarithmic irregularity is strictly smaller than the dimension. In this setting, we study the case of a very generic curve with two components of degrees d1 ≤ d2 and prove the hyperbolicity of the complement if the degrees satisfy either d1 ≥ 4, or d1 = 3 and d2 ≥ 5, or d1 = 2 and d2 ≥ 8, or d1 = 1 and d2 ≥ 11. We also prove that the complement of a very generic curve of degree d at least equal to 14 in the complex projective plane is hyperbolic, improving slightly, with a new proof, the former bound obtained by El Goul.

Let n=2,3,4,5 and let X be a smooth complex projective hypersurface of . In this paper we find an effective lower bound for the degree of X, such that every holomorphic entire curve in X must satisfy an algebraic differential equation of order k=n=dim X, and also similar bounds for order k>n. Moreover, for every integer n≥2, we show that there are no such algebraic differential equations of order k<n for a smooth hypersurface in .

We show that the injective Kobayashi–Royden differential metric, as defined by Hahn, is upper semicontinous.

We compare the hyperbolicity with respect to the Lempert function with the other hyperbolicities in the class of pseudoconvex balanced domains.