Poletsky has introduced a notion of plurisubharmonicity for functions defined on compact sets in ℂⁿ. We show that these functions can be completely characterized in terms of monotone convergence of plurisubharmonic functions defined on neighborhoods of the compact.

To a plurisubharmonic function $u$ on ${\mathbf{C}}^n$ with logarithmic growth at infinity, we may associate the Robin function$${\displaystyle {\rho }_u\left(z\right)=\underset{\lambda \to \infty }{lim\; sup}u\left(\lambda z\right)-log\left(\lambda z\right)}$$defined on ${\mathbf{P}}^{n-1}$, the hyperplane at infinity. We study the classes $L_{+}$, and (respectively) $L_p$ of plurisubharmonic functions which have the form $u=log(1+|z\left|\right)+O\left(1\right)$ and (respectively) for which the function ${\rho }_u$ is not identically $-\infty$. We obtain an integral formula which connects the Monge-Ampère measure on the space ${\mathbf{C}}^n$ with the Robin function on ${\mathbf{P}}^{n-1}$. As an application we obtain a criterion on the convergence of the Monge-Ampère...

A certain linear growth of the pluricomplex Green function of a bounded convex domain of ${ℂ}^N$ at a given boundary point is related to the existence of a certain plurisubharmonic function called a “plurisubharmonic saddle”. In view of classical results on the existence of angular derivatives of conformal mappings, for the case of a single complex variable, this allows us to deduce a criterion for the existence of subharmonic saddles.

Let $X$ be a complex manifold with strongly pseudoconvex boundary $M$. If $\psi$ is a defining function for $M$, then $-log\psi$ is plurisubharmonic on a neighborhood of $M$ in $X$, and the (real) 2-form $\sigma =i\partial \overline{\partial }(-log\psi )$ is a symplectic structure on the complement of $M$ in a neighborhood of $M$ in $X$; it blows up along $M$. The Poisson structure obtained by inverting $\sigma$ extends smoothly across $M$ and determines a contact structure on $M$ which is the same as the one induced by the complex structure. When $M$ is compact, the Poisson structure near...

We update the state of the subject approximately 20 years after the publication of T. Bloom, L. Bos, C. Christensen, and N. Levenberg, Polynomial interpolation of holomorphic functions in ℂ and ℂⁿ, Rocky Mountain J. Math. 22 (1992), 441-470. This report is mostly a survey, with a sprinkling of assorted new results throughout.

For μ a positive measure, we estimate the pluricomplex potential of μ, $P_{\mu }\left(x\right)={\int }_{\Omega }g(x,y)d\mu \left(y\right)$, where g(x,y) is the pluricomplex Green function (relative to Ω) with pole at y.

The paper deals with logarithmic capacities, an important tool in pluripotential theory. We show that a class of capacities, which contains the L-capacity, has the following product property: $C_{\nu }\left(E₁\times E₂\right)=min(C_{\nu ₁}\left(E₁\right),C_{\nu ₂}\left(E₂\right))$, where $E_j$ and ${\nu }_j$ are respectively a compact set and a norm in ${ℂ}^{N_j}$ (j = 1,2), and ν is a norm in ${ℂ}^{N₁+N₂}$, ν = ν₁⊕ₚ ν₂ with some 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞. For a convex subset E of ${ℂ}^N$, denote by C(E) the standard L-capacity and by ${\omega }_E$ the minimal width of E, that is, the minimal Euclidean distance between two supporting hyperplanes in...

Le but de cet article est de montrer un résultat de prolongement d’un courant positif, défini en dehors d’un obstacle fermé, dont le $d{d}^c$ est dominé par un courant positif fermé de masse localement finie. On étudie divers types d’obstacles  : soit un ensemble fermé pluripolaire complet, soit l’ensemble des zéros d’une fonction strictement $k$-convexe positive. Dans la troisième partie, sous des conditions sur la dimension de Hausdorff de l’obstacle, on démontre le prolongement d’un tel courant. On termine...

Let $X$ and $Y$ be compact Kähler manifolds, and let $f:X\to Y$ be a dominant meromorphic map. Based upon a regularization theorem of Dinh and Sibony for DSH currents, we define a pullback operator $f^{♯}$ for currents of bidegrees $(p,p)$ of finite order on $Y$ (and thus foranycurrent, since $Y$ is compact). This operator has good properties as may be expected. Our definition and results are compatible to those of various previous works of Meo, Russakovskii and Shiffman, Alessandrini and Bassanelli, Dinh and Sibony, and can...