The \(\overline{\partial}\)-Neumann operator and the Kobayashi metric (Q1765983)

The author introduces a condition, called property K, which encodes information about the holomorphic structure of fat subdomains. It is shown that a bounded pseudoconvex domain \(\Omega \) in \(\mathbb C^n,\) which is Kobayashi complete near \(p\in \partial \Omega \) and has smooth boundary near \(p\) and does not satisfy property K, has a noncompact \(\overline{\partial }\)-Neumann operator. The author also exhibits a local property of the Kobayashi metric under which the domain is locally a product space.