Wermer examples and currents (Q708817)

In this beautiful and well-written paper the following theorem is proven: There exists a closed positive \((1,1)\) current \(T=dd^{c} u\) in the unit bidisc \(\mathbb C^{2}\) such that \( u\in {\mathcal C}^{1,\alpha}\), for all \(\alpha \in (0,1)\), \( T\wedge T=0\) and the support of \(T\) does not contain any holomorphic discs. This solves (in the positive) a problem posed by Fornæss and Levenberg. The sense of this theorem is that it explains how dramatically the cases of more and less regular potentials differ. It is well known that, if \(u\in{\mathcal C}^3\), then one can find even a foliation by holomorphic discs and the corresponding current \(T\) is the integral of currents of integration over these discs. The construction makes use of the so-called Wermer example, by which the author understands a polynomial hull of a compact subset of the Cartesian product of the unit circle and the unit disc, spanned over the whole unit disc in the first variable and such that no holomorphic disc is contained in it. The existence of such examples is now classical. The proof of the theorem is much influenced by ideas of [\textit{J. Duval} and \textit{N. Sibony}, Duke Math. J. 79, No. 2, 487--513 (1995; Zbl 0838.32006)]. The article ends with a list of open problems, among which one finds the question whether it is possible to obtain \({\mathcal C}^{1,1}\) regularity in the theorem above.