Differential tests for plurisubharmonic functions and Koch curves

Abstract

We study minimum sets of singular plurisubharmonic functions and their relation to upper contact sets. In particular we develop an algorithm checking when a naturally parametrized curve is such a minimum set. The case of Koch curves is studied in detail. We also study the size of the set of upper non-contact points. We show that this set is always of Lebesgue measure zero thus answering an open problem in the viscosity approach to the complex Monge-Ampère equation. Finally, we prove that similarly to the case of convex functions, strictly plurisubharmonic lower tests yield existence of upper tests with a control on the opening.

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