On smoothing properties of the Bergman projection

Abstract

We study smoothing properties of the Bergman projection and also of weighted Bergman projections. In particular, we relate these properties to the hyperconvexity index of a pseudoconvex domain in $\mathbb{C}^{n}$. The notion of a hyperconvexity index was first introduced by B.Y. Chen, which provides a flexible criterion for studying geometric properties of hyperconvex domains. We also obtain a new estimate of weighted Bergman projections, which improves a well-known estimate of Berndtsson and Charpentier. We give several applications of this estimate, including the study of smoothing properties of weighted Bergman projections.