In this article, we study the Bergman property for semigroups and the associated notions of cofinality and strong cofinality. A large part of the paper is devoted to determining when the Bergman property, and the values of the cofinality and strong cofinality, can be passed from semigroups to subsemigroups and vice versa. Numerous examples, including many important semigroups from the literatur...

The tropical variety defined by linear equations with constant coefficients is the Bergman fan of the corresponding matroid. Building on a self-contained introduction to matroid polytopes, we present a geometric construction of the Bergman fan, and we discuss its relationship with the simplicial complex of nested sets in the lattice of flats. The Bergman complex is triangulated by the nested se...

where ρ is a defining function for Ω, = ∂̄∂̄∗ + ∂̄∗∂̄, u, f are (0, 1) forms, and denotes the interior product of forms. Under the stated hypotheses on Ω, this problem is uniquely solvable for every f ∈ L(Ω). The Neumann operator N , mapping f to the solution u, is continuous on L(Ω). The Bergman projection B is the orthogonal projection of L(Ω) onto the closed subspace of L holomorphic functions o...

We study the Bergman complex B(M) of a matroid M : a polyhedral complex which arises in algebraic geometry, but which we describe purely combinatorially. We prove that a natural subdivision of the Bergman complex of M is a geometric realization of the order complex of its lattice of flats. In addition, we show that the Bergman fan B̃(Kn) of the graphical matroid of the complete graph Kn is homeo...

In this paper we describe the Einstein-Kähler metric for the Cartan-Hartogs domains which are the special case of the Hua domains. First of all, we reduce the Monge-Ampère equation for the metric to an ordinary differential equation in the auxiliary function X = X(z, w). This differential equation can be solved to give an implicit function in X. Secondly, for some cases, we obtained explicit fo...

Let (L, h) → (X,ω) be a compact toric polarized Kähler manifold of complex dimension n. For each k ∈ N, the fibre-wise Hermitian metric h on L induces a natural inner product on the vector space C∞(X,Lk) of smooth global sections of L by integration with respect to the volume form ω n n! . The orthogonal projection Pk : C∞(X,Lk) → H(X,L) onto the space H(X,L) of global holomorphic sections of L...