Complex geodesics and complex Monge-Ampère equations with boundary singularity

Abstract

We study complex geodesics and complex Monge-Ampère equations on bounded strongly linearly convex domains in ${\mathbb{C}}^n$. More specifically, we prove the uniqueness of complex geodesics with prescribed boundary value and direction in such a domain, when its boundary is of minimal regularity. The existence of such complex geodesics was proved by the first author in the early 1990s, but the uniqueness was left open. Based on the existence and the uniqueness proved here, as well as other previously obtained results, we solve a homogeneous complex Monge-Ampère equation with prescribed boundary singularity, which was first considered by Bracci et al. on smoothly bounded strongly convex domains in ${\mathbb{C}}^n$.

V2: 34 pages, minor revision and references added; final version, to appear in Mathematische Annalen