Plurisubharmonic exhaustion functions and almost complex Stein structures

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Abstract: We prove that a relatively compact pseudoconvex domain with smooth boundary in an almost complex manifold admits a bounded strictly plurisubharmonic exhaustion function. We use this result for the study of convexity and hyperbolicity properties of these domains and the contact geometry of their boundaries.


Let \((M,J)\) be an almost complex manifold. The main results of the paper are the following theorems. Let \(\varOmega\subset M\) be a relatively compact Levi convex domain with \(\mathcal C^3\) boundary such that there exists a \(\mathcal C^2\) strictly plurisubharmonic function \(\psi\) in a neighborhood \(U\) of \(\partial\varOmega\). Let \(r\) be a \(\mathcal C^3\) defining function for \(\varOmega\cap U\). Then there exist a neighborhood \(U'\) of \(\partial\varOmega\) and constants \(A>0\), \(0<\eta_0<1\), such that for any \(0<\eta\leq\eta_0\) the function \(\rho=-(-re^{-A\psi})^\eta\) is strictly plurisubharmonic on \(\varOmega\cap U'\). If \(U\) is a neighborhood of \(\overline\varOmega\), then \(\rho\) is strictly plurisubharmonic on \(\varOmega\). Let \(\varOmega\subset M\) be relatively compact pseudoconvex domain with \(\mathcal C^3\) boundary. Assume that \(M\) admits a strictly plurisubharmonic function. Then the following conditions are equivalent: (i) \(\varOmega\) is Levi convex; (ii) \(\varOmega\) is disc-convex; (iii) \(\varOmega\) admits a bounded strictly plurisubharmonic exhaustion function; (iv) \(\varOmega\) is pseudoconvex; \(\varOmega\) is a Stein domain. If \(M\) admits a strictly plurisubharmonic function, then any relatively compact pseudoconvex domain with \(\mathcal C^3\) boundary is taut.



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