The blow-up rate of solutions to boundary blow-up problems for the complex Monge-Ampère operator (Q2501124)

Let \(D\subset \mathbb C^n\) be a bounded strongly pseudoconvex domain with smooth boundary. Solutions to the complex Monge-Ampère equations of type \((dd^c u)^n (z) = \exp(K u(z))\), \(K>0\), which explode at every boundary point of \(D\) generate Kähler-Einstein metrics and are therefore well studied [\textit{S.-Y. Cheng, S.-T. Yau}, Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 33, 507--544 (1980; Zbl 0506.53031)]. In the paper under review, the authors deal with the velocity of explosion (blow-up rate) at the boundary for solutions of a more general Monge-Ampère equation, that is, with \((dd^c u)^n (z) = f(z, u(z))\), \(u(z)\to \infty\) as \(z\to \partial D\). Under some mild regularity assumption on \(f\), they find that for all \(p\in \partial D\) \(\lim_{z\to p} \Psi_n(u(z))/\text{dist}(\partial D, z)=G(p)\), holds where \(\Psi_n(a)=\int_a^\infty H(x)\,dx\) with \(H\) depending only on \(f\), and \(G\) is a function which depends on \(f\) and the determinant of the restriction of the Levi form to the complex tangent space of \(\partial D\) at \(p\). The very rough idea of the proof goes as follows. The authors first solve a similar problem for the ball finding a radial smooth solution. Using such a radial solution they obtain an upper estimate on an inner tangent ball at the boundary. Then, they get a lower estimate by changing local coordinates in order to convexify the domain. Finally, using a result of Fefferman which relates the Bergman metric with a certain Monge-Ampère equation of the type studied in this paper, the authors obtain that for all \(p\in \partial D\) \(\lim_{z\to p} \text{dist}(\partial D, z)^{n+1} K_D(z,z)=D(p)n!/4\pi^n\) holds, where \(K_D\) is the Bergman kernel and \(D(p)\) is the determinant of the Levi form restricted to the complex tangent space at \(p\).