Applications of the duality between the homogeneous complex Monge-Ampère equation and the Hele-Shaw flow (Q2421905)

The authors apply the results from their previous paper [\textit{J. Ross} and \textit{D. W. Nyström}, Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 122, 315--335 (2015; Zbl 1333.32041)] on the relation (via the Legendre transform) between the Hale-Shaw flow on the plane and the Dirichlet problem for the complex homogeneous Monage-Ampère equation on \(\mathbb P ^1 \times \mathbb D\), where \(\mathbb P ^1\) is the complex projetive space of dimension \(1\) with the Fubini-Study form \(\omega\), and \(\mathbb D\) is the unit disc in the plane: \begin{align*} &\Phi (\cdot , \tau ) = \phi (\cdot , \tau ), \ \ \ \tau \in \partial \mathbb D, \\ & \pi ^{\ast } \omega + dd^c \Phi \geq 0, \\ &( \pi ^{\ast } \omega + dd^c \Phi )^{2} = 0, \end{align*} where \(\pi\) denotes the projection on the first variable and \(\phi (\cdot , \tau )\) is a smooth \(\omega\)-subharmonic function. They provide examples where the solutions fail to be twice differentiable for smooth boundary data. More precisely, given a union, say \(X\), of finitely many points and nonintersecting smooth curve segments in \(\mathbb P ^1 \setminus \{0\} \) there exists a solution \(\phi\) of the problem above which is not twice differentiable at any point of the form \((\tau ^{-1}z, \tau ), z\in X, |\tau |=1\). The solutions of the Dirichlet problem, when the disc is replaced by the punctured disc, correspond to finding geodesic rays in the space of Kähler potentials on \(\mathbb P ^1\). The authors describe some smooth geodesic rays as Legendre transforms of envelopes produced by the Hale-Shaw flow.