TITLE: Is the Baily--Borel compactification functorial?
QUESTION [5 upvotes]: The following question seems pretty natural, but searching online
and looking in some obvious places didn't turn up much, so maybe
I can ask it here. (Disclaimer: I'm a newcomer to this topic, so
apologies if the question is obviously misguided.)
Suppose that $V_1 = X_1/\Gamma_1$ and $V_2= X_2/\Gamma_2$ are
arithmetic quotients of Hermitian symmetric domains. Let $V_1^\ast$
and $V_2^\ast$ be their respective Baily--Borel compactifications. Now suppose
we have an analytic map $f: V_1 \rightarrow V_2$. Does it extend
to a morphism $f^\ast: V_1^\ast \rightarrow V_2^\ast$?
If the answer in general is no, are there any nontrivial cases in which it is yes? (For instance, the simplest example that comes to mind is the case where $X_1=X_2$, $\Gamma_1 \subsetneq \Gamma_2$, and $f: V_1 \rightarrow V_2$ is the quotient.)

REPLY [3 votes]: A useful reference might be the article "Satake Compactification and extension of Holomorphic Mappings", Inv.Math. 16, 237-248, 1972, by Kiernan and Kobayashi. They show that if the map $V_1 \to V_2$ is induced from a map $X_1 \to X_2$ then it extends. In particular, the answer is positive for your "simplest example", though that presumably follows from the construction of the compactification.