Hearing pseudoconvexity with the Kohn Laplacian (Q1772079)

The author proves the following interesting result: A bounded domain in \(\mathbb C^n\) with connected Lipschitz boundary is pseudoconvex if the bottom of the essential spectrum of the Kohn Laplacian on the space of \((0,q)\) forms, \(1\leq q\leq n-1\) with \(L^2\) coefficients is positive. The result can be generalized to the case of \((p,q)\) forms without difficulty.