Volume approximations of strongly pseudoconvex domains (Q2012943)

In affine convex geometry, the volume approximation of a \(C^2\)-smooth convex body by polyhedra with at most \(n\) facets can be asymptotically estimated by \(n^{-2/(d-1)}\) times \((d+1)/(d-1)\)-th power of the integral of the Blaschke surface area measure on the boundary of the convex body. In this article, the author studies the complex analogue of this relation. Namely, the volume approximation of a pseudoconvex domain by a special class of polyhedra with ``complexity'' \(n\) can be asymptotically estimated by some power of \(n\) times some power of the integral of the Fefferman hypersurface measure on the boundary of the domain. Since the exposition in higher dimensions becomes exceedingly complicated, the author only focuses on \(C^4\)-smooth strongly pseudoconvex domains in \(\mathbb C^2\), and proves that the volume approximation is asymptotically estimated by \(n^{-1/2}\) times \(3/2\)-th power of the integral of the Fefferman measure. To prove the main theorem, the author first analyzes the ``defining functions'' of the special class of the polyhedra and passes to a single representative function. Then the author studies the Siegel domain as the model domain and a particular class of polyhedra as model polyhedra. Then the author moves from the model to the general case locally, and finally moves from the local case to the global case. In the appendix of the paper, the author introduces a brief exposition on the power diagram and a way to obtain the bounds for the constant in the asymptotic estimate. This result of the complex analogue of the asymptotic estimate is interesting. It will be also interesting to see how this theory extends to higher dimensions and more general domains in complex analysis.