Plurisubharmonicity for the solution of the Fefferman equation and applications

Song-Ying Li1,2
1Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, USA
2School of Math and Computer Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, People’s Republic of China

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In this paper, the author introduces a concept of the super-pseudoconvex domain. He proves that the solution of the Fefferman equation on a smoothly bounded strictly pseudoconvex domain D in $${\mathbb {C}}^n$$ is plurisubharmonic in D if and only if D is super-pseudoconvex. As an application, when D is super-pseudoconvex, he gives the sharp lower bound for the bottom of the spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operators by using the result of Li and Wang (Int. Math. Res. Not. 4351–4371, 2012).

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