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IJMMS 29:12 (2002) 749–752 PII. S0161171202007597 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. CONDITION R AND FEFFERMAN’S MAPPING THEOREM PATRICK DARKO Received 14 May 2001 It is shown that Fefferman’s mapping theorem extends to the case of manifolds, that is a biholomorphic map between two strictly pseudoconvex manifolds extends smoothly to their boundaries. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 32H40, 32T15. 1. Introduction. A central question in complex analysis is “does every proper holo- morphic mapping f : D → D of bounded domains D , D with smooth boundaries in Cn extend smoothly to the boundary of D?” The answer has been known to be “yes” in dimension one for a long time. In higher dimensions, in case D and D are strictly pseudoconvex and f is biholomorphic, Fefferman’s famous mapping theorem [8] answers the question in the affirmative. Bell and Ligocka [4] simplified the proof of Fefferman’s mapping theorem and ex- tended the theorem to a wide class of pseudoconvex domains. In [3], Fefferman’s mapping theorem was extended to smoothly bounded pseudo- convex subdomains of Stein manifolds that satisfy condition R . Thereafter, the ques- tion was asked whether all smoothly bounded pseudoconvex domains satisfy con- dition R . Recently, Barrett [2] and Christ [5] have shown that this question has an answer in the negative. But that was not the end of condition R , because the case of strictly pseudoconvex manifolds that are not Stein had not been determined. At first it was thought (because of the work of Barrett [ 1]) that one could not do without the assumption of Steinness. In this note, we show that a strictly pseudoconvex manifold need not be Stein be- fore it satisfies condition R ; and following the work of Bedford et al. [3], we extend Fefferman’s mapping the