Picard dimension of signed radial Kato measures (Q2655586)

This paper deals with the stationary Schrödinger equation \[ \Delta u-u\mu=0\tag{\(*\)} \] in the punctured unit ball \(B(0,1)\setminus\{0\}\) of \(\mathbb R^N\) (\(N\geq 2\)), where \(\mu\) is a signed local Kato measure. The authors investigate the Picard dimension of \(\mu\), which is the cardinal number of the set of extremal rays of the convex cone of all continuous solutions \(u\) of the equation \((*)\) that vanish on the unit sphere. First the authors establish that \((*)\) has a unique radial solution \(h_{\mu}\) and that \(h_{\mu}>0\) if and only if \(\Delta u-u\mu=0\) posed on \(B(0,1)\) has only the trivial solution \(u=0\). Using this fact, the authors next deduce that the Picard dimension of \(\mu\) can only be either 0 or 1 or \(+\infty\).