Algebraicity of the Bergman kernel (Q6583550)

The authors introduce a new characterization of the two-dimensional unit ball \(\mathbb B^2 \subset \mathbb C^2\) in terms of algebraicity of the Bergman kernel. As a corollary they show that a relatively compact, non-singular domain \(G\) with smooth strongly pseudoconvex boundary in a 2-dimensional algebraic variety \(V\) in \(\mathbb C^N\) has an algebraic Bergman kernel if and only if \(G\) is biholomorphic to \(\mathbb B^2\) by an algebraic map. For the ``only if'' implication they use the asymptotic boundary behavior of the Bergman kernel to establish sphericity of the boundary of \(G.\) To prove the converse implication they compute the Bergman kernel using a transformation formula for covering maps of complex analytic spaces. They indicate that the characterization fails in the higher-dimensional case, by proving that the domain \(G = \{ w \in \mathbb C^4 : |w_1|^2+ |w_2|^2 +|w_3|^2+ |w_4|^2 <1, \, w_1 w_4=w_2 w_3 \}\) has a non-spherical boundary, but the Bergman kernel of \(G\) is algebraic.