Robin functions for complex manifolds and applications

In a previous Memoirs (Vol. 92, No. 448), Levenberg and Yamaguchi analysed the second variation of the Robin function $-lambda(t)$ associated to a smooth variation of domains in $mathbbCn$ for $ngeq 2$. In the current work, the authors study a generalisation of this second variation formula to complex manifolds $M$ equipped with a Hermitian metric $ds2$ and a smooth, nonnegative function $c$.