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On convex to pseudoconvex mappings

Complex Variables 2009-03-11 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

In the works of Darboux and Walsh it was remarked that a one to one self mapping of \rr3\rr^3 which sends convex sets to convex ones is affine. It can be remarked also that a \calc2\calc^2-diffeomorphism F:UUF:U\to U^{'} between two domains in \ccn\cc^n, n2n\ge 2, which sends pseudoconvex hypersurfaces to pseudoconvex ones is either holomorphic or antiholomorphic. \smallskip In this note we are interested in the self mappings of \ccn\cc^n which send convex hypersurfaces to pseudoconvex ones. Their characterization is the following: {\it A \calc2\calc^2 - diffeomorphism F:UUF:U'\to U (where U,U\ccnU', U\subset \cc^n are domains) sends convex hypersurfaces to pseudoconvex ones if and only if the inverse map Φ\deffF1\Phi\deff F^{-1} is weakly pluriharmonic, i.e. it satisfies some nice second order PDE very close to \d\dˉΦ=0\d\bar\d \Phi = 0.} In fact all pluriharmonic Φ\Phi-s do satisfy this equation, but there are also other solutions.

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@article{arxiv.0903.1787,
  title  = {On convex to pseudoconvex mappings},
  author = {S. Ivashkovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.1787},
  year   = {2009}
}
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