Duke Mathematical Journal

Capacity theory and arithmetic intersection theory

Ted Chinburg, Chi Fong Lau, and Robert Rumely

Source: Duke Math. J. Volume 117, Number 2 (2003), 229-285.

Abstract

We show that the sectional capacity of an adelic subset of a projective variety over a number field is a quasi-canonical limit of arithmetic top self-intersection numbers, and we establish the functorial properties of extremal plurisubharmonic Green's functions. We also present a conjecture that the sectional capacity should be a top selfintersection number in an appropriate adelic arithmetic intersection theory.

Primary Subjects: 11G35
Secondary Subjects: 14G40, 32U20, 32U35

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