We solve the Fu-Yau equation for arbitrary dimension and arbitrary slope $\alpha'$. Actually we obtain at the same time a solution of the open case $\alpha'>0$, an improved solution of the known case $\alpha'<0$, and solutions for a family of Hessian equations which includes the Fu-Yau equation as a special case. The method is based on the introduction of a more stringent ellipticity condition than the usual $\Gamma_k$ admissible cone condition, and which can be shown to be preserved by precise estimates with scale.

For each closed, positive (1,1)-current$ω$on a complex manifold$X$and each$ω$-upper semicontinuous function$φ$on$X$we associate a disc functional and prove that its envelope is equal to the supremum of all$ω$-plurisubharmonic functions dominated by$φ$. This is done by reducing to the case where$ω$has a global potential. Then the result follows from Poletsky’s theorem, which is the special case$ω$=0. Applications of this result include a formula for the relative extremal function of an open set in$X$and, in some cases, a description of the$ω$-polynomial hull of a set.

We give an example of a dominant rational self-map of the projective plane whose dynamical degree is a transcendental number.

In a recent series of articles, the authors have studied the transition behavior of partial Bergman kernels $\Pi_{k, [E_1, E_2]} (z,w)$ and the associated DOS (density of states) $\Pi_{k, [E_1, E_2]} (z)$ across the interface $\mathcal{C}$ between the allowed and forbidden regions. Partial Bergman kernels are Toeplitz Hamiltonians quantizing Morse functions $H : M \to \mathbb{R}$ on a Kähler manifold. The allowed region is $H^{-1} ([E_1, E_2])$ and the interface $\mathcal{C}$ is its boundary. In prior articles it was assumed that the endpoints $E_j$ were regular values of $H$. This article completes the series by giving parallel results when an endpoint is a critical value of $H$. In place of the Erf scaling asymptotics in a $k^{-\frac{1}{2}}$ tube around $\mathcal{C}$ for regular interfaces, one obtains $\delta$-asymptotics in $k^{-\frac{1}{4}}$ tubes around singular points of a critical interface. In $k^{-\frac{1}{2}}$ tubes, the transition law is given by the osculating metaplectic propagator.

We show that the symmetrized bidisc may be exhausted by strongly linearly convex domains. It shows in particular the existence of a strongly linearly convex domain that cannot be exhausted by domains biholomorphic to convex ones.