Date of Graduation

8-2022

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics (PhD)

Degree Level

Graduate

Department

Mathematical Sciences

Advisor/Mentor

Harrington, Phillip S.

Committee Member

Raich, Andrew S.

Second Committee Member

Tjani, Maria

Keywords

q-convex; q-subharmonic

Abstract

We generalize the Diederich-Fornaess index to bounded weakly q-convex domains with bounded q-subharmonic exhaustion functions. Sufficient conditions for this generalized Diederich-Fornæss index to have a given lower bound are proved. We show this generalized index is positive on bounded weakly q-convex domains with C^3 boundaries. Additionally, we prove sufficient conditions for this generalized index to equal one. For example, we show that if the domain has Property ( ̃(Pq ) ) then the domain has high hyperconvexity.

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Mathematics Commons

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