Removable sets for subharmonic functions (Q1587527)

Let \(\Omega\) be an open set in \(\mathbb{R}^n, \) \(n \geq 2\) and \(X \subset \Omega\) a closed set contained in \(\Omega.\) Hayman and Kennedy proved that if \(f\) is a subharmonic bounded function in \(\Omega\) but not in \(E,\) and \(E\) is a polar, then \(f\) is a subharmonic extension to the set \(\Omega.\) Gardiner has shown that in the case of a compact exceptional set the boundedness condition can be relaxed by imposing certain smoothness and Hausdorff measure condition on the set. He also showed that his results are sharp. In this note the author points out that there exist results which are in a certain sense parallel to Gardiner's results but no smoothness conditions are necessary to impose on the exceptional set. As a matter of fact the author shows that results similar to Gardiner's hold when two conditions are changed by one geometric measure condition \(M^\alpha(E) =0\) where \(M^\alpha\) is the upper Minkowski content.