On smoothing of plurisubharmonic functions on unbounded domains

Abstract: We prove that for every $n \ge 2$, there exists a pseudoconvex domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{C}^n$ such that $\mathfrak{c}^0(\Omega) \subsetneq \mathfrak{c}^1(\Omega)$, where $\mathfrak{c}^k(\Omega)$ denotes the core of $\Omega$ with respect to $\mathcal{C}^k$-smooth plurisubharmonic functions on $\Omega$. Moreover, we show that there exists a bounded continuous plurisubharmonic function on $\Omega$ that is not the pointwise limit of a sequence of $\mathcal{C}^1$-smooth bounded plurisubharmonic functions on $\Omega$.