Estimates of invariant metrics on pseudoconvex domains near boundaries with constant Levi ranks (Q471984)

The author estimates the Bergman kernel and both the Bergman and the Kobayashi metrics on bounded pseudoconvex domains of \(\mathbb C^n\) in the boundary points where the Levi form has constant rank \(r\) in a neighborhood, \(0\leq r\leq n-1\). To obtain these estimates he uses \textit{D. W. Catlin}'s idea [Math. Z. 200, No. 3, 429--466 (1989; Zbl 0661.32030)] to construct plurisubharmonic functions whose complex Hessians blow up at the rate of \(1/\delta(z)\) and, in the complex normal direction, at a rate of \(|L_{\delta}(z,X)|/\delta(z)\), where \(\delta\) is the Euclidean distance to the boundary and \(L_{\delta}\) is the Levi form. To obtain the estimate of the Kobayashi metric, the Sibony metric is used.