Complex Geometry & Analysis

Song-Yan Xie

Professor · Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences

My research lies at the interface of complex analysis and algebraic geometry, with an emphasis on rigidity, flexibility, and randomness in complex spaces.

Beijing, China xiesongyan@amss.ac.cn AMSS, CAS
Song-Yan Xie

Research Directions

Three themes organize my current work in complex geometry and analysis.

01

Complex Hyperbolicity and Nevanlinna Theory

Entire curves · Value distribution · Jet differentials · Second main theorem

02

Oka Manifold Theory

Oka manifolds · Fano manifolds · K3 surfaces · Entire curves

03

Stochastic Geometry and Complex Analysis

Random zeros · Hole probabilities · Random holomorphic sections · Complex analysis

Education

Ph.D. in Mathematics
Université Paris-Sud 11, Paris, France
Thesis: On the ampleness of the cotangent bundles of complete intersections 📄 PDF
M.S. in Mathematics
Université Paris-Sud 11, Paris, France
B.S. in Mathematics
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Employment

Professor
Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS, Beijing
Associate Professor
Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS, Beijing
Postdoctoral Fellow
Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany
Teaching Assistant
Université Paris-Sud 11, Paris, France

Preprints

  • 1. Hole probabilities of random zeros on compact Riemann surfaces
    Hao Wu, Song-Yan Xie
    math.CV | math.AG | math.PR
  • 2. Generating all Ahlfors currents by a single entire curve
    Yunling Chen, John Erik Fornæss, Song-Yan Xie
    math.CV
  • 3. A Second Main Theorem for Entire Curves Intersecting Three Conics
    Lei Hou, Dinh Tuan Huynh, Joël Merker, Song-Yan Xie
    math.CV | math.AG
  • 4. Vanishing of Invariant 2-Jet Differentials and Improved Hyperbolicity Degree Bounds in Dimension Two
    Lei Hou, Dinh Tuan Huynh, Joël Merker, Song-Yan Xie
    math.CV | math.AG
  • 5. A Symmetry Method for Key Vanishing Lemmas and the 2-Jet Riemann--Roch Thresholds
    Tao Cui, Lei Hou, Jianjun Liu, Song-Yan Xie
    math.CV | math.AG
  • 6. Wronskian curvature positivity is equivalent to the existence of a holomorphic projective connection
    Pengchao Wang, Song-Yan Xie
    math.CV
  • 7. Elliptic complements of cubic hypersurfaces
    Song-Yan Xie
    math.AG | math.CV
  • 8. Sharp Summability of Nevanlinna Defects for Finite-Lower-Order Holomorphic Curves
    Yun-Heng Du, Song-Yan Xie
    math.CV
  • 9. Invariant two-jets and effective hyperbolicity for complements of two plane curves
    Lei Hou, Pengchao Wang, Song-Yan Xie
    math.CV | math.AG
  • 10. Periods of Oka K3 surfaces are dense
    Song-Yan Xie, Shengyuan Zhao
    math.CV | math.AG
  • 11. Kobayashi Hyperbolicity of General Surfaces via the Poincaré Problem
    Song-Yan Xie, Shengyuan Zhao
    math.AG | math.CV
  • 12. Analytic Construction of Rational Curves on Fano Manifolds
    Yun-Heng Du, Bin Guo, Song-Yan Xie
    math.CV | math.AG
  • 13. Analytic and Algebraic Oka-1 Approximation for Smooth Projective Morphisms with Rationally Connected Fibers
    Yun-Heng Du, Bin Guo, Song-Yan Xie
    math.CV | math.AG

Publications

  • 1. On the ampleness of the cotangent bundles of complete intersections
    Song-Yan Xie
    Invent. Math. 212 (2018), no. 3, 941–996.
  • 2. Entire holomorphic curves into projective spaces intersecting a generic hypersurface of high degree
    Dinh Tuan Huynh, Duc-Viet Vu, Song-Yan Xie
    Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble) 69 (2019), no. 2, 653–671.
  • 3. On Ahlfors currents
    Dinh Tuan Huynh, Song-Yan Xie
    J. Math. Pures Appl. (9) 156 (2021), 307–327.
  • 4. On the Weyl-Ahlfors theory of derived curves
    Dinh Tuan Huynh, Song-Yan Xie
    Math. Z. 300 (2022), no. 1, 475–491.
  • 5. Universal entire curves in projective spaces with slow growth
    Zhangchi Chen, Dinh Tuan Huynh, Song-Yan Xie
    J. Geom. Anal. 33 (2023), no. 9, Paper No. 308, 12 pp.
  • 6. Big Picard theorem for jet differentials and non-archimedean Ax-Lindemann theorem
    Dinh Tuan Huynh, Ruiran Sun, Song-Yan Xie
    J. Number Theory 253 (2023), 257–277.
  • 7. Universal holomorphic maps with slow growth I: an algorithm
    Bin Guo, Song-Yan Xie
    Math. Ann. 389 (2024), 3349–3378.
  • 8. Entire curves producing distinct nevanlinna currents
    Song-Yan Xie
    Int. Math. Res. Not. 2024 (2024), no. 10, 8350–8362.
  • 9. Universal holomorphic maps with slow growth II: functional analysis methods
    Bin Guo, Song-Yan Xie
    Indiana Univ. Math. J. 75 (2026), no. 1, 48–86.
  • 10. Entire holomorphic curves into Pn(C) intersecting n+1 general hypersurfaces
    Zhangchi Chen, Dinh Tuan Huynh, Ruiran Sun, Song-Yan Xie
    Sci. China Math. 68 (2025), no. 12, 2847–2866.
  • 11. Entire curves generating all shapes of Nevanlinna currents
    Hao Wu, Song-Yan Xie
    J. Lond. Math. Soc. (2) 111 (2025), no. 5, Paper No. e70177.
  • 12. Frequently hypercyclic meromorphic curves with slow growth
    Zhangchi Chen, Bin Guo, Song-Yan Xie
    J. Geom. Anal. 36 (2026), 132.