Session 5. Complex Analysis

The core of a complex manifold

Tobias Harz, University of Wuppertal, Germany
This talk is based on joint work with N. Shcherbina and G. Tomassini
The core \(\mathfrak{c}(\mathcal{M})\) of a complex manifold \(\mathcal{M}\) is introduced as the set of all points where every smooth and bounded from above plurisubharmonic function on \(\mathcal{M}\) fails to be strictly plurisubharmonic. I will explain that every strictly pseudoconvex domain \(\Omega \subset \mathcal{M}\) with smooth boundary admits a global defining function that is strictly plurisubharmonic precisely in the complement of \(\mathfrak{c}(\Omega)\). Moreover, I will discuss properties of the core, in particular
  1. 1-pseudoconcavity of the core, and
  2. Liouville type properties of the core.

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