The finite-frequency zero mass conjecture for plurisubharmonic functions

Let uP(B1)u\in {\mathcal P}(B_1) be a plurisubharmonic function whose alternating part has finite frequencies, meaning that near the origin, in a proper complex Hopf-coordinate, it can be written as

u=us+k=1m(coskθvk+sinkθwk).u = u_s+\sum_{k=1}^m\left(\cos k\theta\cdot v_k+\sin k\theta\cdot w_k\right).

Here usu_s is the S1S^1-invariant part, θ\theta is the argument in the S1S^1-direction, and vk,wkv_k,w_k are circular symmetric functions. Let νu(0)\nu_u(0) denote the Lelong number and τu(0)\tau_u(0) the residual Monge–Ampère mass at the origin. Finite-frequency zero mass conjecture. If uu has finite frequencies in its alternating part, then an upper-bound estimate for its Monge–Ampère mass should hold, and

νu(0)=0τu(0)=0.\nu_u(0)=0\Rightarrow\tau_u(0)=0.

This is proposed as a weaker version of the zero mass conjecture, motivated by the established uniformly directional Lipschitz result for functions that separate the S1S^1-direction. The conjectured upper-bound estimate for general finite-frequency functions remains unresolved in the supplied text.

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Weiyong He, Long Li and Xiaowei Xu, “On the residual Monge-Ampère mass of plurisubharmonic functions, III: uniformly directional Lipschitz”, arXiv:2410.15014 (2025).

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