Tangent cones to positive-\((1,1)\) De Rham currents (Q5894330)
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Tangent cones to positive-\((1,1)\) De Rham currents (English)
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2 November 2011
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7 December 2015
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This paper studies the uniqueness of tangent cones to positive currents in the setting of almost complex manifolds. It is a classical result by Siu that if one has a positive \((1,1)\)-current, the subset of points with strictly positive Lelong number is the union of analytic sets. This is not true for the weakly-positive case. As observed by Kiselman this leads to non-uniqueness of the so-called tangent cone. This non-uniqueness can, however, only happen in a point at which there is a jump in the Lelong number. Few is known about the analogous problems in the setting of almost-complex manifolds. The findings of the author are: On an almost complex manifold carrying a positive \((1,1)\)-normal cycle (positive \((1,1)\)-current of finite mass and without boundary, positivity is with respect to the given symplectic form on the manifold, more details can be found in the paper), if \(x_{0}\) is a point for which the ``density'' (analog of the Lelong number) is positive and there is a sequence accumulating at \(x_{0}\) such that the densities measured at the points tend to the density at \(x_{0}\), then the tangent cone at \(x_{0}\) is unique and is given by a multiple of the current of integration on a certain disk. A strengthening of this result is also provided and it states that any tangent cone at \(x_{0}\) must ``contain'' the sum of certain currents of integration provided that there exists a sequence accumulating at \(x_{0}\) for which merely the densities are bounded below by a positive constant. The case of other bidegrees is not studied. No proofs are presented.
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Let \((M^{2n},J)\) be an almost-complex manifold and \(g\) an almost-Hermitian metric on \((M,J)\), with associated real \(2\)-form \(\omega\) (defined by \(\omega(X,Y)=g(JX,Y)\), which needs not be closed). Let \(T\) be a closed \(2\)-current on \(M\) with finite mass (i.e., \(T\) is a normal cycle), and assume furthermore that \(T\) is positive and of type \((1,1)\). For example, if \((M,J)\) is \(\mathbb{C}^n\) with its standard complex structure, then such a \(T\) is equivalent to a plurisubharmonic function with the property that its Laplacian has bounded total mass. It has been known since the work of \textit{C. O. Kiselman} [in: International symposium on number theory and analysis in memory of Hua Loo Keng, held at the Tsing Hua University, Beijing, China, August 1--7, 1988. Volume II: Analysis. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. 157--167 (1991; Zbl 0810.31006)] that tangent cones to plurisubharmonic functions are in general not unique. The main theorem of this paper is that the tangent cone of any positive \((1,1)\) normal cycle \(T\) is unique at any point where the density of \(T\) is positive and does not jump up with respect to its values in a neighborhood. In the case of \(\mathbb{C}^n\) such a result follows from Siu's theorem, but the situation considered here is vastly more general.
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almost complex manifold
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Lelong number
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density
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uniqueness of tangent cones
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tangent cone
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positive \((1,1)\)-current
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almost-complex
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almost-Hermitian
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closed 2-current
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plurisubharmonic function
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