Monge-Ampère equations and moduli spaces of manifolds of circular type (Q1043492)

A (bounded) manifold of circular type is a \(n\)-dimensional complex manifold admitting a (bounded) exhaustive real function \(u\), defined on \(M\) minus a point \(x_0\), such that the following conditions are satisfied: (a) \(u\) is a smooth solution on \(M \setminus \{ x_0 \}\) to the Monge-Ampere equation \((d d^c u)^n =0\); (b) \(x_0\) is a singular point for \(u\) of logarithmic type and \(e^u\) extends smoothly on the blow up of \(M\) at \(x_0\); (c) \(d d^c (e^u) >0\) at every point of \(M \setminus \{ x_0 \}\). This class of manifolds includes naturally the smoothly bounded stricltly linearly convex domains and the smoothly bounded strictly pseudoconvex circular domains in \({\mathbb C}^n\). In the present paper the authors prove, for each biholomorphic equivalence of such (bounded) manifolds of circular type, the existence of an essentially unique manifold in normal form, consisting of the unit ball \(B^n\) together with a non-standard complex structure, which satisfies some suitable conditions. Moreover, they show that the class of normalizing maps for an \(n\)-dimensional manifold \(M\) is a new holomorphic invariant with the property that it is parametrized by the points of a finite dimensional real manifold of dimension \(n^2\) when \(M\) is a (non-convex) circular domain while of dimension \(n^2 + 2n\) when \(M\) is a strictly linearly convex domain. In Section 4 they prove that the complex structure of a manifold in normal form is completely determined by the associated deformation tensor. In Section 5 as an application they show that a bounded manifold of circular type \(M\), with \(u: M \setminus \{ x_0 \} \to [0, r^2)\) satisfying \((a), (b), (c)\), is biholomorphic to a circular domain in \({\mathbb C}^n\) if and only if there exists at least two subdomains \(M_{<c} = \{ u < c \}\), \(M_{< c'} = \{ u < c' \}\), \(0 < c < c' < r^2\), which are biholomorphic one to the other by a map fixing \(x_0\).