Complex convexity and analytic functionals (Q1887205)

This valuable monograph, which was in preparation for a decade, is the first systematic, unified treatment of the notion of \(\mathbb C\)-convexity. Previously, the best reference for that topic was sections 4.6--4.7 of a book by \textit{L. Hörmander} [Notions of convexity. (Basel, Birkhäuser) (1994; Zbl 0835.32001)]. The book consists of four chapters, each of which begins with a helpful summary and concludes with bibliographic references and historical comments. The first chapter discusses convexity in real projective space. Although this chapter is independent of the rest of the book, it introduces the authors' point of view that projective space is the proper setting for understanding and developing the concepts. The second chapter defines \(\mathbb C\)-convex sets and linearly convex sets, establishes their basic properties, discusses examples, and proves the main theorems about such sets, including their topology, their duality properties, and their invariance with respect to projective mappings. The third chapter studies analytic functions and functionals defined on \(\mathbb C\)-convex sets and their relation via the Fantappiè transform. Historically, this correspondence was the motivation of André Martineau, the pioneer of the subject. The concluding chapter characterizes \(\mathbb C\)-convexity in terms of solvability of linear partial differential equations with constant coefficients.