The Cauchy-Riemann complex. Integral formulae and Neumann problem

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This book presents complex analysis of several variables from the point of view of the Cauchy-Riemann equations and integral representations. Integral representation methods serve a twofold purpose: they yield regularity results not easily obtained by other methods, and lead to a fairly simple development of parts of the classical theory of several complex variables. The authors try to reach both aims. Chapters I--III, \textit{The Bochner-Martinelli-Koppelman Formula, Cauchy-Fantappiè Forms, Strictly Pseudoconvex Domains in \(\mathbb C^n\)}, contain standard applications of the Bochner-Martinelli-Koppelman integral representation, a complete presentation of Cauchy-Fantappiè forms giving also the numerical constants of the theory, and a direct study of the Cauchy-Riemann complex on strictly pseudoconvex domains leading to a rather elementary solution of Levi's problem in \(\mathbb C^n\). Chapter IV, \textit{Strictly Pseudoconvex Manifolds}, carries the theory from domains in \(\mathbb C^n\) to strictly pseudoconvex subdomains of arbitrary -- not necessarily Stein -- manifolds. This theory is developed taking as a model classical Hodge theory on compact Riemannian manifolds; the relation between a parametrix for the real Laplacian and the generalized Bochner-Martinelli-Koppelman formula is crucial for the success of the method. In Chapter V, \textit{The \(\overline\partial\)-Neumann problem}, the Neumann problem for the Cauchy-Riemann complex is described and the fundamental density theorems due to Friedrichs and Hörmander are proved. An analysis of this problem leading to the main technical results is given in Chapter VI, \textit{Integral Representation for the \(\partial\)-Neumann problem} and Chapter VIII, \textit{Regularity of the \(\overline\partial\)-Neumann problem}, whereas Chapter VII, \textit{Regularity Properties of Admissible Operators}, develops the necessary machinery of integral estimates and function spaces. The book ends with applications of these technical results to complex analysis: Mergelyan's and Gleason's problems on complex manifolds, in the framework of Hölder spaces. The book can be used for advanced graduate courses and research seminars; it contains to some extent material which has not yet been covered in other texts.




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