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A Survey on Bergman Completeness

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We provide a survey of results on Bergman completeness of open complex manifolds

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The author would like to thank the organizers of KSCV10 for their invitation and the referee for pointing out many misprints in the manuscript.

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Chen, BY. (2015). A Survey on Bergman Completeness. In: Bracci, F., Byun, J., Gaussier, H., Hirachi, K., Kim, KT., Shcherbina, N. (eds) Complex Analysis and Geometry. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 144. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55744-9_7

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