A counterexample to the differentiability of the Bergman kernel function

Chen, So-Chin

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03290-X

A counterexample to the differentiability of the Bergman kernel function
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Abstract:

In this paper we prove the following main result. Let $D$ be a smoothly bounded pseudoconvex domain in $\mathbb {C}^n$ with $n\ge 2$. Suppose that there exists a complex variety sitting in the boundary $bD$; then we have \[ K_{D}(z,w)\notin C^{\infty }(\overline {D}\times \overline {D}-\Delta (bD)). \] In particular, the Bergman kernel function associated with the Diederich-Fornaess worm domain is not smooth up to the boundary in joint variables off the diagonal of the boundary.

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