Some new domains with complete Kähler metrics of negative curvature (Q1186667)

The authors discuss domains with complete Kähler metrics of negative curvature. In the introduction they review the current state of affairs. Analogous to results of R. E. Greene and S. Krantz they show that the \(C^ 4\)-perturbations of ellipsoidal domains also admit complete Kähler metrics of negative curvature. The principal result in this article is a type of additivity result for certain admissible metrics as defined by the authors. More precisely, let \((E,H)\) and \((F,S)\) be domains in \(\mathbb{C}^ 2\) equipped with admissible metrics \(H\) and \(S\). Then \(H+S\) is a Kähler metric of strongly negative curvature on \(E\cap F\). In particular for complex ellipsoidal domains \(E\) and \(F\) in \(\mathbb{C}^ 2\) the sum of Bergman metrics on \(E\cap F\) is a complete Kähler metric of strongly negative curvature. Finally analogous results are also obtained for the intersection of fractional linear transformations of the unit ball.