Remarks on the Bergman kernel function of a worm domain

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\textit{M. Christ} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 9, No. 4, 1171-1185 (1996)] proved that the Bergman projection operator of the so-called worm domain \(\Omega\) of \textit{K. Diederich} and \textit{J. E. Fornæss} [Math. Ann. 225, 275-292 (1977; Zbl 0333.32018)] fails to preserve the space \(C^\infty(\overline\Omega)\) of functions smooth up to the boundary. Building on this result, the author shows that the set \(A\) of points \(w\) in \(\Omega\) for which the Bergman kernel function \(K(z,w)\) of \(\Omega\) is smooth up to the boundary as a function of \(z\) is a small set: namely, \(A\) is contained in the zero set of a harmonic function (not identically zero) having polynomial growth at the boundary of \(\Omega\). In particular, \(A\) is contained in a closed, nowhere dense set. It would be interesting to know whether the set \(A\) is actually void.











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