Painlevé's problem and analytic capacity
Painlevé's problem and analytic capacity
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Painlevé 的问题和分析能力
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2006
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X. Tolsa
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X. Tolsa
In this paper we survey some recent results in connection with the so called Painleve’s problem and the semiadditivity of analytic capacity γ. In particular, we give the detailed proof of the semiadditivity of the capacity γ+, and we show almost completely all the arguments for the proof of the comparability between γ and γ+. This paper arose from a series of three lectures given at the 7 International Conference on Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, at El Escorial (Madrid), in June 2004. In this article we will discuss and review some recent results in connection with the so called Painleve’s problem and the semiadditivity of analytic capacity, as well as other related questions. Some parts of this work, specially those sections which are purely expository, follow quite closely our previous (but very recent) survey paper [To10]. However, the present article contains much more detailed information. For instance, unlike [To10], it includes the detailed arguments for the proofs of the semiadditivity of γ+ and of the comparability between γ and γ+. The plan of the paper is the following. In the first section, which is introductory and purely expository, the notions of analytic capacity and Painleve’s problem are explained. Also, some basic properties of analytic capacity are shown and the theorem of Guy David which solves Vitushkin’s conjecture is stated. The final part of this section deals with the Cauchy transform and the capacity γ+. In the second section we introduce the notion of curvature of a measure, and we show its close relationship with the L norm of the Cauchy transform on the one hand, and with rectifiability on the other hand. This section is also mainly expository. In Section 3 we survey several results on Calderon-Zygmund theory with non doubling measures. This theory plays a key role in the study of analytic capacity. We discuss some of the results more useful in connection with analytic capacity, such as the weak (1, 1) boundedness of Calderon-Zygmund operators, Cotlar’s inequality, and the T (1) and T (b) theorems. Section 4 deals with the semiadditivity of the capacity γ+. We give the detailed proof of this result. Further, we show a new (as far as we know) proof which avoids the use of the T (1) theorem (although we also explain the alternative arguments based on the use of the T (1) theorem). In Section 5 we state the theorem about the comparability between γ and γ+, which in particular implies the semiadditivity of analytic capacity. We describe the main ideas and difficulties in the proof of the comparability theorem. We give the Partially supported by grants MTM2004-00519 (Spain) and 2001-SGR-00431 (Generalitat de Catalunya).