Singularities vs non-pluripolar Monge--Ampère masses
Quang-Tuan Dang, Hoang-Son Do, Hoang Hiep Pham
TL;DR
The paper addresses how singularities of $\theta$-psh potentials influence the non-pluripolar Monge–Ampère mass $\int_X \theta_u^n$, establishing that masses decrease when singularity type becomes stronger in capacity. It develops envelope techniques and capacity arguments to prove a monotonicity result, including a short alternative proof of Witt–Nyström’s monotonicity and extends results to big cohomology classes. Key contributions include a characterization of membership in $\mathcal{E}(X,\theta,\phi)$ via singularity data and envelopes, a mass-invariance result for potentials of the same singularity type, and corollaries linking envelopes, Lelong numbers, and singularity types. The findings advance the understanding of how singularities govern non-pluripolar MA masses, with implications for variational approaches and complex geometric problems on Kähler manifolds.
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to compare singularities of closed positive currents whose non-pluripolar complex Monge--Ampère masses equal. We also provide a short alternative proof for the monotonicity of non-pluripolar complex Monge--Ampère masses, generalizing results of Witt-Nyström, Darvas--Di Nezza--Lu, Lu--Nguyên and Vu.
