Uniqueness of tangent currents for positive closed currents

Abstract

Let $X$ be a complex manifold $X$ of dimension $k,$ and let $V\subset X$ be a Kähler submanifold of dimension $l,$ and let $B\subset V$ be a piecewise ${\mathcal{C}}^2$-smooth domain. Let $T$ be a positive closed currents of bidegree $(p,p)$ in $X$ such that $T$ satisfies a mild reasonable assumption in a neighborhood of $\partial B$ in $X$ and that the $j$-th average mean ${\nu }_j(T,B,r)$ for every $j$ with $\max (0,l-p)\le j\le \min (l,k-p)$ converges sufficiently fast to the $j$-th generalized Lelong number ${\nu }_j(T,B)$ as $r$ tends to $0$ so that $r^{-1}({\nu }_j(T,B,r)-{\nu }_j(T,B))$ is locally integrable near $r=0.$ Then we show that $T$ admits a unique tangent current along $B.$ A local version where we replace the condition of $T$ near $B$ by the conditions on a finite cover of $B$ by piecewise ${\mathcal{C}}^2$-smooth domains in $V$ is also given. When $T$ is a current of integration over a complex analytic set, we show that ${\nu }_j(T,B,r)-{\nu }_j(T,B)=O(r^{\rho })$ for some $\rho >0,$ and hence this condition is satisfied. Our result may be viewed as a natural generalization of Blel-Demailly-Mouzali's criterion from the case $l=0$ to the case $l>0.$ The result has applications in the intersection theory of positive closed currents.

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