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Intrinsic capacities on compact Kähler manifolds

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We study fine properties of quasiplurisubharmonic functions on compact Kähler manifolds. We define and study several intrinsic capacities which characterize pluripolar sets and show that locally pluripolar sets are globally “quasi-pluripolar.”

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Guedj, V., Zeriahi, A. Intrinsic capacities on compact Kähler manifolds. J Geom Anal 15, 607–639 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02922247

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