Siu's semicontinuity theorem
In complex analysis, the Siu semicontinuity theorem implies that the Lelong number of a closed positive current on a complex manifold is semicontinuous. More precisely, the points where the Lelong number is at least some constant form a complex subvariety. This was conjectured by Harvey & King (1972) and proved by Siu (1973, 1974). Demailly (1987) generalized Siu's theorem to more general versions of the Lelong number.
References
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- Harvey, F. Reese; King, James R. (1972), "On the structure of positive currents", Inventiones Mathematicae, 15: 47–52, doi:10.1007/BF01418641, ISSN 0020-9910, MR 0296348
- Siu, Yum Tong (1973), "Analyticity of sets associated to Lelong numbers and the extension of meromorphic maps", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 79: 1200–1205, doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1973-13378-6, ISSN 0002-9904, MR 0330505
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