We prove the existence of non-positively curved Kähler-Einstein metrics with cone singularities along a given simple normal crossing divisor of a compact Kähler manifold, under a technical condition on the cone angles, and we also discuss the case of positively-curved Kähler-Einstein metrics with cone singularities. As an application we extend to this setting classical results of Lichnerowicz and Kobayashi on the parallelism and vanishing of appropriate holomorphic tensor fields.

We study swept-out Monge-Ampère measures of plurisubharmonic functions and boundary values related to those measures.

We give a state-of-the-art survey of investigations concerning multivariate polynomial inequalities. A satisfactory theory of such inequalities has been developed due to applications of both the Gabrielov-Hironaka-Łojasiewicz subanalytic geometry and pluripotential methods based on the complex Monge-Ampère operator. Such an approach permits one to study various inequalities for polynomials restricted not only to nice (nonpluripolar) compact subsets of ℝⁿ or ℂⁿ but also their versions for pieces...

We study the masses charged by ${\left(d{d}^{c}u\right)}^n$ at isolated singularity points of plurisubharmonic functions u. This is done by means of the local indicators of plurisubharmonic functions introduced in [15]. As a consequence, bounds for the masses are obtained in terms of the directional Lelong numbers of u, and the notion of the Newton number for a holomorphic mapping is extended to arbitrary plurisubharmonic functions. We also describe the local indicator of u as the logarithmic tangent to u.

We study questions related to exceptional sets of pluri-Green potentials $V_{\mu }$ in the unit ball B of ℂⁿ in terms of non-isotropic Hausdorff capacity. For suitable measures μ on the ball B, the pluri-Green potentials $V_{\mu }$ are defined by $V_{\mu }\left(z\right)={\int }_{B}log(1/|{\varphi }_z\left(w\right)\left|\right)d\mu \left(w\right)$, where for a fixed z ∈ B, ${\varphi }_z$ denotes the holomorphic automorphism of B satisfying ${\varphi }_z\left(0\right)=z$, ${\varphi }_z\left(z\right)=0$ and $\left({\varphi }_z\circ {\varphi }_z\right)\left(w\right)=w$ for every w ∈ B. If dμ(w) = f(w)dλ(w), where f is a non-negative measurable function of B, and λ is the measure on B, invariant under all holomorphic automorphisms of B, then $V_{\mu }$...

Let Ω be a bounded hyperconvex domain in ℂn and let μ be a positive and finite measure which vanishes on all pluripolar subsets of Ω. We prove that for every continuous and strictly increasing function χ:(-∞,0) → (-∞,0) there exists a negative plurisubharmonic function u which solves the Monge-Ampère type equation $-\chi \left(u\right)\left(d{d}^{c}u\right)ⁿ=d\mu$. Under some additional assumption the solution u is uniquely determined.

For bounded logarithmically convex Reinhardt pairs "compact set - domain" (K,D) we solve positively the problem on simultaneous approximation of such a pair by a pair of special analytic polyhedra, generated by the same polynomial mapping f: D → ℂⁿ, n = dimΩ. This problem is closely connected with the problem of approximation of the pluripotential ω(D,K;z) by pluripotentials with a finite set of isolated logarithmic singularities ([23, 24]). The latter problem has been solved recently for arbitrary...

We give several definitions of the pluricomplex Green function and show their equivalence.

We prove (Theorem 1.2) that the category of generalized holomorphically contractible families (Definition 1.1) has maximal and minimal objects. Moreover, we present basic properties of these extremal families.

It is shown that an infinite sequence of polynomial mappings of several complex variables, with suitable growth restrictions, determines a filled-in Julia set which is pluriregular. Such sets depend continuously and analytically on the generating sequences, in the sense of pluripotential theory and the theory of set-valued analytic functions, respectively.

Let K be a compact set in ℂ, f a function analytic in ℂ̅∖K vanishing at ∞. Let $f\left(z\right)={\sum }_{k=0}^{\infty }{a}_k{z}^{-k-1}$ be its Taylor expansion at ∞, and $H_s\left(f\right)=det{\left(a_{k+l}\right)}_{k,l=0}^s$ the sequence of Hankel determinants. The classical Pólya inequality says that $limsu{p}_{s\to \infty }{\left|H_s\left(f\right)\right|}^{1/s²}\le d\left(K\right)$, where d(K) is the transfinite diameter of K. Goluzin has shown that for some class of compacta this inequality is sharp. We provide here a sharpness result for the multivariate analog of Pólya’s inequality, considered by the second author in Math. USSR Sbornik 25 (1975), 350-364.