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Siu, Yum-Tong

This article discusses the recent transcendental techniques used in the proofs of the following three conjectures. (1) The plurigenera of a compact projective algebraic manifold are invariant under holomorphic deformation. (2) There exists no smooth Leviflat hypersurface in the complex projective plan. (3) A generic hypersurface of sufficiently high degree in the complex projective space is hyperbolic in the sense that there is no nonconstant holomorphic map from the complex Euclidean line to it.