Boundary singularity of Poisson and harmonic Bergman kernels

Abstract

We give a complete description of the boundary behaviour of the Poisson kernel and the harmonic Bergman kernel of a bounded domain with smooth boundary, which in some sense is an analogue of the similar description for the usual Bergman kernel on a strictly pseudoconvex domain due to Fefferman. Our main tool is the Boutet de Monvel calculus of pseudodifferential boundary operators, and in fact we describe the boundary singularity of a general potential, trace or singular Green operator from that calculus.