Effective transitive actions of the unitary group on quotients of Hopf manifolds

Abstract

In our article of 2002 joint with N. Kruzhilin we showed that every connected complex manifold of dimension $n\ge 2$ that admits an effective transitive action by holomorphic transformations of the unitary group ${\rm U}_n$ is biholomorphic to the quotient of a Hopf manifold by the action of ${\mathbb Z}_m$ for some integer $m$ satisfying $(n,m)=1$. In this note, we complement the above result with an explicit description of all effective transitive actions of ${\rm U}_n$ on such quotients, which provides an answer to a 10-year old question.

Final version, published online in the Journal of Geometric Analysis