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We consider the relationship between two sufficient conditions for regularity of the Bergman Projection on smooth, bounded, pseudoconvex domains. We show that if the set of infinite type points is reasonably well-behaved, then the existence…

We introduce the concept of Steinness index related to the Stein neighborhood basis. We then show several results: (1) The existence of Steinness index is equivalent to that of strong Stein neighborhood basis. (2) On the…

We study bounded pseudoconvex domains in complex Euclidean spaces. We find analytical necessary conditions and geometric sufficient conditions for a domain being of trivial Diederich--Forn\ae ss index (i.e. the index equals to 1). We also…

We derive a sufficient condition on a bounded pseudoconvex domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{C}^2$ with smooth boundary such that $-(-\rho)^\eta$ is plurisubharmonic on $\Omega$ for $\eta>0$ arbitrarily close to $1$ (the supremum of $\eta$ is…

We study bounded pseudoconvex domains in complex Euclidean space. We define an index associated to the boundary and show this new index is equivalent to the Diederich-Forn{\ae}ss index defined in 1977. This connects the…

The Diederich--Forn\ae ss index has been introduced since 1977 to classify bounded pseudoconvex domains. In this article, we derive several intrinsic, geometric conditions on boundary of domains for arbitrary indexes. Many results, in the…

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{C}^n$ be a bounded pseudoconvex domain. We define the Diederich-Forn{\ae}ss index with respect to a family of functions to be the supremum over the set of all exponents $0<\eta<1$ such that there exists a function…

A uniform upper bound for the Diederich--Fornaess index is given for weakly pseudoconvex domains whose Levi-form of the boundary vanishes in $\ell$-directions everywhere.

In this paper, we prove the semi-continuity theorem of Diederich-Forn{\ae}ss index and Steinness index under a smooth deformation of pseudoconvex domains in Stein manifolds.

For a relatively compact Stein domain $\Omega$ with $C^2$ boundary in a Hermitian manifold $M$, we consider the strong Diederich-Forn{\ae}ss index, denoted $DF(\Omega)$: the supremum of all exponents $0<\eta<1$ such that eigenvalues of the…

We propose the concept of Diederich--Forn{\ae}ss and Steinness indices on compact pseudoconvex CR manifolds of hypersurface type in terms of the D'Angelo 1-form. When the CR manifold bounds a domain in a complex manifold, under certain…

In this paper we construct a Stein neighborhood basis for any compact subvariety $A$ with strongly pseudoconvex boundary $bA$ and Stein interior $A\backslash bA$ in a complex space $X$. This is an extension of a well known theorem of Siu.…

In this note we establish a lower bound for the distance induced by the K\"ahler-Einstein metric on pseudoconvex domains with positive hyperconvexity index (e.g. positive Diederich-Fornaess index). A key step is proving an analog of the…

We show that the Diederich-Fornaess index of a domain in a Stein manifold is invariant under CR-diffeomorphisms. For this purpose we also improve CR-extension theorem.

Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded pseudoconvex domain in $\mathbb{C}^{n}$. Let $1\leq q_{0}\leq (n-1)$. We show that if $q_{0}$--sums of eigenvalues of the Levi form are comparable, then if the Diederich--Forn\ae ss index of $\Omega$ is $1$,…

We study the Diederich-Forn{\ae}ss exponent and relate it to non-existence of Stein domains with Levi-flat boundaries in complex manifolds. In particular, we prove that if the Diederich-Forn{\ae}ss exponent of a smooth bounded Stein domain…

Let $H$ be a separable Hilbert space, $A_c:\mathcal D_c\subset H\to H$ a densely defined unbounded operator, bounded from below, let $\mathcal D_{\min}$ be the domain of the closure of $A_c$ and $\mathcal D_{\max}$ that of the adjoint.…

The central purpose of the present paper is to study boundary behavior of squeezing functions on bounded domains. We prove that the squeezing function of a strongly pseudoconvex domain tends to 1 near the boundary. In fact, such an estimate…

Let D be a smoothly bounded domain in C^2. Suppose that D admits a smooth defining function which is plurisubharmonic on the boundary of D. Then the Diederich-Fornaess exponent can be chosen arbitrarily close to 1, and the closure of D…

Let D be a smooth bounded pseudoconvex domain in C^n. We give several characterizations for the closure of D to have a strong Stein neighborhood basis in the sense that D has a defining function r such that {z\in C^n:r(z)<a} is pseudoconvex…