Potential theory on almost complex manifolds

DOI10.5802/AIF.2928MaRDI QIDQ748354zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. Reese Harvey, H. Blaine jun. Lawson

Publication date 20 October 2015

Published in Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.2584, http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.5802/aif.2928/

zbMATH Keywords

almost complex manifoldplurisubharmonic functionpseudo-holomorphic curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Almost complex manifolds (32Q60) Plurisubharmonic functions and generalizations (32U05) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic systems (35J57)

Abstract: Pseudo-holomorphic curves on almost complex manifolds have been much more intensely studied than their "dual" objects, the plurisubharmonic functions. These functions are defined classically by requiring that the restriction to each pseudo-holomorphic curve is subharmonic. In this paper subharmonic functions are defined by applying the viscosity approach to a version of the complex hessian which exists intrinsically on any almost complex manifold. Three theorems are proved. The first is a restriction theorem which establishes the equivalence of our definition with the "classical" definition. In the second theorem, using our "viscosity" definitions, the Dirichlet problem is solved for the complex Monge-Amp`ere equation in both the homogeneous and inhomogeneous forms. These two results are based on theorems found in two recent papers of the authors. Finally, it is shown that the plurisubharmonic functions considered here agree with the plurisubharmonic distributions. In particular, this proves a conjecture of Nefton Pali.

Review text

From the authors' abstract: On almost complex manifolds the pseudo-holomorphic curves have been much more intensely studied than their ``dual objects, the plurisubharmonic functions. These functions are standardly defined by requiring that the restriction to each pseudo-holomorphic curve be subharmonic. In this paper plurisubharmonic functions are defined by applying the viscosity approach to a version of the complex Hessian which exists intrinsically on any almost complex manifold. Three theorems are proven. The first is a restriction theorem which establishes the equivalence of the authors' definition with the ``standard definition. In the second theorem, using the authors' ``viscosity definitions, the Dirichlet problem is solved for the complex Monge-Ampère equation in both the homogeneous and inhomogeneous forms. Finally, it is shown that the plurisubharmonic functions considered here agree in a precise way with the plurisubharmonic distributions. In particular, this proves a conjecture of Nefton Pali, which states that a plurisubharmonic distribution from \(L^1_{\text{loc}}\) coincides a.e. with a plurisubharmonic function.

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