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Continuous $$q$$-convex exhaustion functions. (English) Zbl 0599.32016
Let $$X$$ be a complex space. $$f: X\to {\mathbb{R}}$$ is called a continuous q- convex function if given $$x\in X$$ there are U a neighborhood of x and $$f_ 1,...,f_ s\in C^{\infty}$$, $$q$$-convex (in the sense of Andreotti- Grauert) functions on $$U$$ such that $$f/U=\max (f_ 1,...,f_ s)$$. If in the definition of $$q$$-convex complex spaces (respectively $$q$$-complete complex spaces) $$C^{\infty}$$ $$q$$-convex functions are replaced by continuous $$q$$-convex functions one obtains the $$q$$-convex with corners complex spaces (respectively $$q$$-complete with corners complex spaces). The importance of this class of functions (and the corresponding classes of complex spaces) has been put into light by recent results of H. Grauert [Kantenkohomologie, Compos. Math. 44, 79-101 (1981; Zbl 0512.32011)] and K. Diederich and J. E. Fornaess [’Smoothing q-convex functions and vanishing theorems’ (to appear)].
The paper investigates the convexity type in this large sense of some open subsets in complex spaces $$X$$. The ambient complex spaces $$X$$ are such that the complement of the diagonal $$\Delta_ X\subset X\times X$$ (or rather a neighborhood of $$\Delta_ X)$$ satisfies some convexity type conditions $$(E_ r)$$ (respectively $$(E_ r'))$$ which are slightly weaker than asking $$(n+r)$$-convexity with corners. Here $$n=\inf \{\dim_ xX| x\in X\}$$. It is proven that $${\mathbb{P}}_ n$$ satisfies $$(E_ 0)$$ and the Hopf manifold satisfies $$(E_ 1)$$. We mention here two main results of the paper:
Theorem 4: Let $$X$$ be a compact complex space such that $$(E_ r)$$ holds on $$X$$ and $$M\subsetneqq X$$ an open subset which is $$q$$-convex with corners. Then $$M$$ is $$(q+r)$$-complete with corners.
Theorem 6: Let $$X$$ be a compact complex space such that $$(E_ r')$$ holds on $$X$$ and $$A\subset X$$ be an analytic set with $$\dim A_ i\geq n-q$$ for every irreducible component $$A_ i$$ of $$A$$. Then $$X-A$$ is $$(q+r)$$-convex with corners. If $$(E_ r)$$ holds on $$X$$, $$X-A$$ is $$(q+r)$$-complete with corners.
To construct continuous $$q$$-convex functions on open subsets of $$X$$ out of the existing continuous $$(n+r)$$-convex functions in the neighborhood of $$\Delta_ X\subset X\times X$$ one relies on the following result: Let $$Y$$ be a complex space, $$V$$ an $$m$$-dimensional compact complex manifold and $$f$$ a continuous r-convex function on $$Y\times V$$. Suppose $$\sup f<\infty.$$ Then $$s(y)=\sup \{f(y,v)| v\in V\}$$ is locally approximable by continuous ($$r-m$$)-convex functions.
Reviewer: N.Mihalache

##### MSC:
 32F10 $$q$$-convexity, $$q$$-concavity
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