Maximal \(q\)-plurisubharmonic functions in \(\mathbb{C}^n\) (Q1936909)

This paper presents some new results concerning the so-called \(q\)-plurisubharmonic functions (a generalization of plurisubharmonic functions). The results are about the maximality of such functions (the definition is parallel to that of maximal plurisubharmonic functions). The main difficulty when studying maximal \(q\)-plurisubharmonic functions is the absence of the Monge-Ampere operator characterization (due to Bedford and Taylor in the locally bounded plurisubharmonic case) of such functions. The authors prove the following two results: \(u\) is a maximal \(q\)-plurisubharmonic function (\(1\leq q\leq n-1\)) on a domain in \(\mathbb C^{n}\) if and only if (1) \(-u\) is a weakly \((n-q-1)\)-plurisubharmonic function (a notion defined in the paper), and (2) \(u\) is a maximal weakly \(q\)-plurisubharmonic function if and only if \(u\) is weakly \(q\)-plurisubharmonic and \(-u\) is weakly \((n-q-1)\)-plurisubharmonic.