A hyperbolic algebraic curve is a bounded subset of an algebraic set. We study the function theory and functional analytic aspects of these sets. We show that their function theory can be described by finite codimensional subalgebras of the holomorphic functions on the desingularization. We show that classical analytic techniques, such as interpolation, can be used to answer geometric questions about the existence of biholomorphic maps. Conversely, we show that the algebraic-geometric viewpoint leads to interesting questions in classical analysis.
IntroductionBy a hyperbolic algebraic curve we mean a set V that is the intersection of a one dimensional algebraic set C with a bounded open set in C n . We call them hyperbolic to emphasize that we wish to study the geometry and function theory on V , not the global theory on C, nor just the local theory on small neighborhoods of points of V . Note that by a holomorphic function on V we mean a function that in a neighborhood of every point of V is the restriction of a holomorphic function on a neighborhood in C n .