The extremal function associated to intrinsic norms. (Q1852706)

Let \(\Omega= \Omega'\setminus \bigcup^N_{k=1} \overline\Omega_k\) where \(\Omega'\) and \(\Omega_k\) are bounded pseudoconvex domains in \(\mathbb{C}^n\) with smooth boundary, \(\bigcup^N_{k=1} \overline\Omega_k\) is holomorphically convex in \(\Omega'\) and \(\overline\Omega_1,\dots, \overline\Omega_N\) are pairwise disjoint. Associated to some variational problem on \(\Omega\), \textit{E. Bedford} and \textit{B. Taylor} proved in [Am. J. Math. 101, 1131--1166 (1979; Zbl 0446.35025)] the existence of an extremal function \(u\) which is plurisubharmonic on \(\Omega\), Lipschitz on \(\overline\Omega\) and satisfies the Monge-Ampère equation \((dd^c u)^n= 0\) with boundary conditions \(u|_{\partial\Omega'}= 1\), \(u|_{\partial\Omega_k}= 0\). In this paper the author proves that the extremal function \(u\) is the limit of a sequence of smooth plurisubharmonic functions \(u_k\) with \(\| u_k\|_{C^{1,1}(\Omega)}\) bounded. He then concludes that \(u\) has \(C^{1,1}\) regularity and proves some results obtained by \textit{E. Bedford} and \textit{B. Taylor} [loc. cit.] under the assumption that \(u\) is \(C^2\).