A counterexample to the existence of peaking functions

Yu, Jiye

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03936-1

A counterexample to the existence of peaking functions
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Abstract:

We construct a smoothly bounded pseudoconvex domain whose boundary contains no complex analytic variety such that some boundary point admits no holomorphic peak function.

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