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5. Comparison of capacities and applications
5.1. Josefson’s theorem
In this section we assume that is Kähler and normalized
by . We first prove an inequality relating
and . We do not know if a reverse inequality
holds as it is the case in the local theory [2].
Then we prove (theorem 5.2) a quantitative version of Josefson’s
theorem that every locally pluripolar set is actually
-polar. In the local theory this result is due to
El Mir [19]. We follow the approach of Alexander-Taylor [2].
Proposition 5.1.
Let be a compact subset of .
If then .
If then
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Proof.
Set . If then is -polar
(theorem 3.2) and there is nothing to prove:
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So we assume in the sequel hence .
If then
with on . Since ,
we get
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whence .
If then hence
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It follows from the previous proposition and corollary 2.8 that
-psh functions are quasicontinuous with respect to the capacity
.
Question. Is there -as in the local context [2]-
a constant s.t.
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Theorem 5.2.
Locally pluripolar sets are
-polar.
Proof.
More precisely we are going to show the following:
consider an open subset of ,
and .
Fix and where
. Then
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is a -psh function such that .
Indeed since is open,
we have and on
(see proposition 3.6).
Observe that is a sum of negative -psh functions
hence it is either identically or a well defined -psh
function with .
Recall that
(proposition 1.7). Therefore
hence .
Fix such that .
Observe that with if
, i.e. when . Therefore
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Recall now that is always dominated by hence
if is large enough. We infer
from the previous proposition that
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which yields
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Note that
whenever hence .
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5.2. Dynamical capacity estimates
Let be an holomorphic endomorphism.
We let denote again the Fubini-Study Kähler form.
Then is a smooth positive closed -form of
mass the
first algebraic degree of .
Thus , where is a smooth -psh
function on .
Iterating this functional equation yields
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We assume . Thus the sequence uniformly converges
on towards a continuous function
called the Green function of . We refer the interested
reader to [33] for a detailed study of the properties of
the Green current .
Dynamical volume estimates have revealed quite useful in establishing ergodic
properties of the Green current
(see [20], [22] and references therein). We
establish herebelow very simple dynamical capacity estimates
and show how to derive from them dynamical volume estimates.
Proposition 5.3.
There exists such that for all Borel subsets of ,
for all ,
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Proof.
This follows straightforwardly from proposition 3.9:
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where the first two inequalities follow from 3.9.4 and 3.9.2 and
last one follows from 3.9.3 and the fact that
, where is uniformly bounded.
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Corollary 5.4.
Let . Then the sequence
is relatively compact in .
Proof.
Set . Observe that is uniformly bounded
from above and that .
It follows from proposition 1.6 that either
converges uniformly towards or it is relatively compact
in .
It is sufficient to show that for large enough,
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Observe that . Therefore
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where the last inequality follows from proposition 3.8. We infer
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for large enough.
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Corollary 5.5.
Fix . There exists such that for all Borel subset
of with , one has
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In other words the volume of a given set can not decrease too fast
under iteration. Such volume estimates are used in complex dynamics
to prove fine convergence results towards the Green current (see [20],
[22]). One may hope that dynamical capacity estimates will allow
to establish convergence results in higher codimension.
Proof.
By the change of variables formula one gets
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where denotes the topological degree of and
stands for the jacobian of with respect to the Fubini-Study
volume form. Observe that
is a difference of two qpsh functions
for some .
Moreover by the chain rule,
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Since is relatively compact
in (previous corollary), the concavity of the log
yields
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Decreasing slightly the value of if necessary, this yields
the desired inequality.
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