Tangents to subsolutions -- existence and uniqueness. II

DOI10.1007/S12220-016-9757-0MaRDI QIDQ2411204zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

Publication date 20 October 2017

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5851

zbMATH Keywords

geometric plurisubharmonicityMonge-Ampère equationsRiesz kernelsstrong uniqueness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plurisubharmonic functions and generalizations (32U05) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) General topics in partial differential equations (35A99) General theory of PDEs and systems of PDEs with constant coefficients (35E20) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Calibrations and calibrated geometries (53C38)

Abstract: This part II of the paper is concerned with questions of existence and uniqueness of tangents in the special case of G-plurisubharmonic functions, where G is a compact subset of the Grassmannian of p-planes in ${mathbbR}^n$. An upper semi-continuous function u on an open set $Omega$ in ${mathbbR}^n$ is G-plurisubharmonic if its restriction to $OmegacapW$ is subharmonic for every affine G-plane $W$. Here G is assumed to be invariant under a subgroup K of O(n) which acts transitively on the sphere $S^{n-1}$. Tangents to u at a point x are the cluster points of u under a natural flow (or blow-up) at x. They always exist and are G-harmonic at all points of continuity. A homogeneity property is established for all tangents in these geometric cases. This leads to principal results concerning the Strong Uniqueness of Tangents, which means that all tangents are unique and of the form $Theta{K}_p$ where $K_p$ is the Riesz kernel and $Theta$ is the density of u at the point. Strong uniqueness is a form of regularity which implies that the sets $Theta(u,x)geqc$ for $c>0$ are discrete. When the invariance group K= O(n), U(n) or Sp(n), strong uniqueness holds for all but a small handful of cases. It also holds for essentially all interesting G which arise in calibrated geometry. When strong uniqueness fails, homogeneity implies that tangents are characterized by a subequation on the sphere, which is worked out in detail. In the cases corresponding to the real, complex and quaternionic Monge-Amp`ere equations (convex functions, and complex and quaternionic plurisubharmonic functions) tangents, which are far from unique, are then systematically studied and classified.

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