Pseudoconvex domains with smooth boundary in projective spaces (Q2031729)

The author discusses questions related to pluri-potential theory on a smooth hypersurface \(Z\) in \(\mathbb{CP}^n\): Is there a strictly plurisubharmonic function in a neighborhood of \(Z\)? These questions are motivated by the still unsolved nonexistence problem of smooth Levi-flat real hypersurfaces in \(\mathbb{CP}^2\). In fact Siu, who showed the nonexistence of smooth Levi-flat real hypersurfaces in \(\mathbb{CP}^n, n\geq 3\), proved the existence of a strictly plurisubharmonic function in the neighborhood of a potential Levi-flat real hypersurfaces and obtained a contradiction. The main result concerning the existence of a strictly plurisubharmonic function in a neighborhood of a smooth hypersurface is Theorem 1.1:\\ Let \(U\subset\mathbb{CP}^n, n\geq 3\), be a domain that is \((n-2)\)-complete and has boundary of class \(\mathcal{C}^1\). Assume also that \(H^{2n-2}_{dR}(U,\mathbb{C})\not= 0\). Then there is a strictly plurisubharmonic function on a neighborhood of \(\partial U\). As a consequence one obtains Corollary 1.2: In \(\mathbb{CP}^n, n\geq 3\), there is no \(\mathcal{C}^1\) hypersurface \(Z\) such that the two components \(U^\pm\) of \(\mathbb{CP}^n\setminus Z\) are both \((n-2)\)-complete and one of them, say \(U^-\), satisfies \(H^2_{dR}(U^-,\mathbb{C})=0\). The author also discusses questions related to the existence of closed (or \(dd^c\)-closed) currents supported on a hypersurface in \(\mathbb{CP}^n\) (or more generally, in a compact Kähler manifold).