Holomorphic proper maps from $B_n$ to $\Delta^k$, $k>n$

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I am studying proper holomorphic maps: one result is that there are no proper holomorphic maps from $B_n$ to $\Delta^n$, i.e. from the open ball in $\mathbb C^n$ in the open polydisc. What if I increase the dimension on the right?

I can't come to an answer: for what I know, embedding theorems could hold, such that every ball can be embedded holomorphically into some polydisc in great dimension.

Thank you in advance for any suggestion.

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Yes, every ball can be holomorphically embedded into some polydisc of sufficiently high dimension.

More generally, Løw has proved that every strictly psudoconvex open subset $\Omega \subset \mathbb C^n$ with $C^2$ boundary can be properly holomorphically embedded into a polydisc $P\subset \mathbb C^m$ of sufficiently high dimension $m\gt n$.
This result is Corollary 1, page 453 of Løw's Theorem 1 in this 1985 Mathematische Zeitschrift article.

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Although it was not asked in the question let me mention that the result does not hold in the other direction:
If $m\gt1$ and $r\gt0$ there is no holomorphic proper map of a polydisc $P \subset \mathbb C^m$ into an open ball $B\subset \mathbb C^r.$
This is part of Theorem 15.2.4, pages 306-307, of Rudins Function Theory in the Unit Ball of $\mathbb C ^n$.