Complete open Kahler manifolds with nonnegative bisectional curvature and non-maximal volume growth

Abstract

It is still an open problem that a complete open Kahler manifold with positive bisectional curvature is Stein. This paper partially resolve the problem by putting a restriction to volume growth condition. The partial solution here improves the observation in ([8], page 341). The improvement is based on assuming a weaker volume growth condition that is not sufficiently maximal.