(Pluri)potential compactifications

Abstract: Using pluricomplex Green functions we introduce a compactification of a complex manifold

M

invariant with respect to biholomorphisms similar to the Martin compactification in the potential theory. For this we show the existence of a norming volume form

V

on

M

such that all negative plurisubharmonic functions on

M

are in

L^{1} (M, V)

. Moreover, the set of such functions with the norm not exceeding 1 is compact. Identifying a point

w i n M

with the normalized pluricomplex Green function with pole at

w

we get an imbedding of

M

into a compact set and the closure of

M

in this set is the pluripotential compactification.

Review text

The author constructs biholomorphically invariant compactifications for some kind of complex manifolds including bounded domains in \(\mathbb{C}^n\) by using pluricomplex Green functions, which is called the pluripotential compactification. In order to do so, the author first shows the existence of a norming volume form V on a connected complex manifold \(M\), and then observes that all negative plurisubharmonic functions on \(M\) are in \(L^1(M,V)\) and shows that the set \(PSH^-_1(M)\) of such functions with the norm not exceeding \(1\) is compact. Assuming \(M\) is a locally uniformly pluri-Greenian complex manifold, constructing a mapping \(\Phi_V: M\to \operatorname{PSH}^-_1(M)\), \(\Phi_V(w) =\frac{g_M(\cdot,w)}{\|g_M(\cdot,w)\|_V}\), where \(g_M(\cdot,w)\) is the pluricomplex Green function on \(M\), the author gets an imbedding of \(M\) into a compact set in \(L^1(M,V)\). The pluripotential compactification of \(M\) is then defined as the closure of \(\Phi_V(M)\) in \(L^1(M,V)\). This approach also gives the Martin compactification in the real case. In the last section, the author computes some pluripotential compactifications for the ball, the polydisk and smooth strongly convex domains in \(\mathbb{C}^n\).

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