Characteristic numbers of bounded domains
Characteristic numbers of bounded domains
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有界域的特征数
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发表时间:
1990
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通讯作者:
Charles L. Epstein
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作者:
D. Burns;Charles L. Epstein
A fundamental problem in several complex variables is to find computable invariants of complex manifolds with strictly pseudoconvex boundaries. The foci of this subject have been: the construction of canonical metrics on the interior and the study of the finitely determined geometry of the boundary. The metrics studied are the Bergman metric, Einstein-K/ihler metric, Kobayashi metric, etc. The geometry on the boundary is couched in the language of bundles with connections and normal forms. It was realized early on that there is a connection between the finitely determined part of the Einstein-K~ihler metric at the boundary and the intrinsically defined structure bundle. Some of these connections were worked out in [F2], [BDS] and [W1]. In the work which follows, we will continue our study of global invariants started in [BE]. In [BE] we associated Chern-Simons type secondary characteristic forms to non-degenerate codimension one CR manifolds. In real dimension three, under suitable topological conditions, we could integrate this form, and we studied the resulting biholomorphic invariant. (Cheng and Lee have independently found this invariant, and found some interesting further properties of it, cf. [CL].) Here we propose to study characteristic numbers of a strictly pseudoconvex domain N coming from the integrals of characteristic forms in the Einstein-K/ihler metric on N. Of course, most such integrals will diverge, the most obvious example being cl n, which is a multiple of the volume form: it behaves like ~p-n-1 at the boundary, if ~ is a defining function for aN. However, the curvature matrix ~'~EK of the Einstein-K~thler metric can be written as a sum of two terms,