Regularity of Plurisubharmonic Upper Envelopes in Big Cohomology Classes
Book chapter, 2012

The goal of this work is to prove the regularity of certain quasiplurisubharmonic upper envelopes. Such envelopes appear in a natural way in the construction of Hermitian metrics with minimal singularities on a big line bundle over a compact complex manifold. We prove that the complex Hessian forms of these envelopes are locally bounded outside an analytic set of singularities. It is furthermore shown that a parametrized version of this result yields a priori inequalities for the solution of the Dirichlet problem for a degenerate Monge-Ampere operator; applications to geodesics in the space of Kahler metrics are discussed. A similar technique provides a logarithmic modulus of continuity for Tsuji's "supercanonical" metrics, that generalize a well-known construction of Narasimhan and Simha.

Upper envelope

Logarithmic

Hermitian line bundle

equilibrium

dirichlet problem

Singular metric

Plurisubharmonic function

Author

Robert Berman

University of Gothenburg

Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics

J. P. Demailly

Grenoble Alpes University

Progress in Mathematics

0743-1643 (ISSN) 2296-505X (eISSN)

39-66

Subject Categories

Mathematics

DOI

10.1007/978-0-8176-8277-4_3

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