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Directed harmonic currents near non-hyperbolic linearizable singularities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2022

ZHANGCHI CHEN*
Affiliation:
Morningside Center of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, http://www.mcm.ac.cn/people/postdocs/202110/t20211022_666685.html
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Abstract

Let $(\mathbb {D}^2,\mathscr {F},\{0\})$ be a singular holomorphic foliation on the unit bidisc $\mathbb {D}^2$ defined by the linear vector field

$$ \begin{align*} z \frac{\partial}{\partial z}+ \unicode{x3bb} w \frac{\partial}{\partial w}, \end{align*} $$

where $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {C}^*$ . Such a foliation has a non-degenerate singularity at the origin ${0:=(0,0) \in \mathbb {C}^2}$ . Let T be a harmonic current directed by $\mathscr {F}$ which does not give mass to any of the two separatrices $(z=0)$ and $(w=0)$ . Assume $T\neq 0$ . The Lelong number of T at $0$ describes the mass distribution on the foliated space. In 2014 Nguyên (see [16]) proved that when $\unicode{x3bb} \notin \mathbb {R}$ , that is, when $0$ is a hyperbolic singularity, the Lelong number at $0$ vanishes. Suppose the trivial extension $\tilde {T}$ across $0$ is $dd^c$ -closed. For the non-hyperbolic case $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {R}^*$ , we prove that the Lelong number at $0$ :

  1. (1) is strictly positive if $\unicode{x3bb}>0$ ;

  2. (2) vanishes if $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {Q}_{<0}$ ;

  3. (3) vanishes if $\unicode{x3bb} <0$ and T is invariant under the action of some cofinite subgroup of the monodromy group.

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Original Article
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

1 Introduction

The dynamical properties of singular holomorphic foliations have recently drawn a great deal of attention; see the discussions in [Reference Dinh and Sibony9, Reference Fornæss and Sibony11, Reference Fornæss, Sibony and Wold13, Reference Nguyên15, Reference Nguyên17, Reference Nguyên18]. Let us mention one of the remarkable results which establishes the unique ergodicity for general singular holomorphic foliations on compact Kähler surfaces.

Theorem 1.1. (Dinh, Nguyên and Sibony [Reference Dinh, Nguyên and Sibony7])

Let $\mathscr {F}$ be a holomorphic foliation with only hyperbolic singularities in a compact Kähler surface $(X,\omega )$ . Assume that $\mathscr {F}$ admits no directed positive closed current. Then there exists a unique positive $dd^c$ -closed current T of mass $1$ directed by $\mathscr {F}$ .

The first version was stated for $X=\mathbb {P}^2$ and proved by Fornæss and Sibony [Reference Fornæss and Sibony12]. Later Dinh and Sibony proved the unique ergodicity for foliations in $\mathbb {P}^2$ with an invariant curve [Reference Dinh and Sibony8]. So one may expect to describe recurrence properties of leaves by studying the density distribution of directed harmonic currents. One has the following result about leaves.

Theorem 1.2. (Fornæss and Sibony [Reference Fornæss and Sibony12])

Let $(X,\mathscr {F},E)$ be a holomorphic foliation on a compact complex surface X with singular set E. Assume that:

  1. (1) there is no invariant analytic curve;

  2. (2) all the singularities are hyperbolic;

  3. (3) there is no non-constant holomorphic map $\mathbb {C}\rightarrow X$ such that out of E the image of $\mathbb {C}$ is locally contained in a leaf.

Then every harmonic current T directed by $\mathscr {F}$ gives no mass to each single leaf.

A practical way to measure the density of harmonic currents is to use the notion of Lelong number introduced by Skoda [Reference Skoda22]. Indeed Theorem 1.2 above is equivalent to the statement that the Lelong number of T vanishes everywhere outside E. Another result holds near hyperbolic singularities.

Theorem 1.3. (Nguyên [Reference Nguyên16])

Let $(\mathbb {D}^2,\mathscr {F},\{0\})$ be a holomorphic foliation on the unit bidisc $\mathbb {D}^2$ defined by the linear vector field $Z(z,w)=z ({\partial }/{\partial z})+\unicode{x3bb} w ({\partial }/{\partial w}),$ where $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {C}\backslash \mathbb {R}$ , that is to say, $0$ is a hyperbolic singularity. Let T be a harmonic current directed by $\mathscr {F}$ which does not give mass to any of the two separatrices $(z=0)$ and $(w=0)$ . Then the Lelong number of T at $0$ vanishes.

Next, Nguyên applies this result to prove the existence of Lyapunov exponents for singular holomorphic foliations on compact projective surfaces [Reference Nguyên20]. Very recently he has proved in [Reference Nguyên19] that for every $n\geqslant 2,$ the Lelong numbers of any directed harmonic current which gives no mass to invariant hyperplanes vanishes near weakly hyperbolic singularities in $\mathbb {C}^n.$ This result is optimal; see [Reference Dinh and Wu10]. The mass-distribution problem would be completed once we could understand the behaviour of harmonic currents near non-hyperbolic non-degenerate singularities, and near degenerate singularities.

The present paper answers (partly) the problem in the non-hyperbolic linearizable singularity case. Here is our first main result.

Theorem 1.4. Let $(\mathbb {D}^2,\mathscr {F},\{0\})$ be a holomorphic foliation on the unit bidisc $\mathbb {D}^2$ defined by the linear vector field $Z(z,w)=z ({\partial }/{\partial z})+\unicode{x3bb} w ({\partial }/{\partial w})$ , where $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {R}^*$ . Let T be a harmonic current directed by $\mathscr {F}$ which does not give mass to any of the two separatrices $(z=0)$ and $(w=0)$ . Assume $T\neq 0$ . Then the Lelong number of T at $0$ :

  • is strictly positive and could be infinite if $\unicode{x3bb}>0$ ;

  • vanishes if $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {Q}_{<0}$ .

For the foliation concerned $(\mathbb {D}^2,\mathscr {F},\{0\})$ , a local leaf $P_\alpha $ , with $\alpha \in \mathbb {C}^*$ , can be parametrized by $(z,w)=(e^{-v+iu},\alpha e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i\unicode{x3bb} u})$ , with $u,v\in \mathbb {R}$ . See the parametrization (1) for details. The monodromy group around the singularity is generated by $(z,w)\mapsto (z,e^{2\pi i\unicode{x3bb} }w)$ . It is a cyclic group of finite order when $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {Q}^*$ , of infinite order when $\unicode{x3bb} \notin \mathbb {Q}$ .

We are now ready to introduce the notion of periodic current, an essential tool in this paper. A directed harmonic current T is called periodic if it is invariant under some cofinite subgroup of the monodromy group, that is, under the action of $(z,w)\mapsto (z,e^{2k\pi i \unicode{x3bb} }w)$ for some $k\in \mathbb {Z}_{>0}$ .

Observe that if $\unicode{x3bb} =({a}/{b})\in \mathbb {Q}^*$ with $a\in \mathbb {Z}^*$ , $b\in \mathbb {Z}_{>0}$ , then any directed harmonic current is invariant under the action of $(z,w)\mapsto (z,e^{2b\pi i \unicode{x3bb} }w)$ , hence is periodic. But when $\unicode{x3bb} \notin \mathbb {Q}^*$ , the periodicity is a non-trivial assumption. It does not follow from the ergodicity of irrational rotation because the current is only continuous on leaf parameters $(u,v)$ for each fixed $\alpha $ . It may not be continuous in variables $(z,w)$ .

We are in a position to state our second main result.

Theorem 1.5. Using the same notation as above, the Lelong number of T at the singularity is $0$ when $\unicode{x3bb} <0$ and the current is periodic, in particular, when $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {Q}_{<0}$ .

It remains open to determine the possible Lelong number values of non-periodic T when $\unicode{x3bb} <0$ is irrational.

Section 2 reviews the definition of singular holomorphic foliations, directed harmonic currents, the mass and the Lelong number. Section 3 describes the topology of leaves near linearizable non-hyperbolic singularities, resolves the ambiguity of normalizing harmonic functions on the leaves and provides practical formulas for the mass and the Lelong number. Section 4 calculates the Lelong number when $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {Q}_{>0}$ . Section 5 calculates the Lelong number when $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {R}_{>0}\backslash \mathbb {Q}$ , with an analysis on Poisson integrals of non-periodic currents. Section 6 calculates the Lelong number when $\unicode{x3bb} <0$ , assuming that the currents are periodic.

2 Background

2.1 Singularities of holomorphic foliations

To start with, recall the definition of singular holomorphic foliation on a complex surface M.

Definition 2.1. Let $E\subset M$ be some closed subset, possibly empty, such that $\overline {M\backslash E}=M$ . A singular holomorphic foliation $(M,E,\mathscr {F}{\kern1.5pt})$ consists of a holomorphic atlas $\{(\mathbb {U}_i,\Phi _i)\}_{i\in I}$ on $M\backslash E$ which satisfies the following conditions.

  1. (1) For each $i\in I$ , $\Phi _i: \mathbb {U}_i\rightarrow \mathbb {B}_i\times \mathbb {T}_i$ is a biholomorphism, where $\mathbb {B}_i$ and $\mathbb {T}_i$ are domains in $\mathbb {C}$ .

  2. (2) For each pair $(\mathbb {U}_i,\Phi _i)$ and $(\mathbb {U}_j,\Phi _j)$ with $\mathbb {U}_i\cap \mathbb {U}_j\neq \emptyset $ , the transition map

    $$ \begin{align*} \Phi_{ij}:=\Phi_i\circ\Phi_j^{-1}:\Phi_j(\mathbb{U}_i\cap\mathbb{U}_j)\rightarrow\Phi_i(\mathbb{U}_i\cap\mathbb{U}_j) \end{align*} $$
    has the form
    $$ \begin{align*} \Phi_{ij}(b,t)=(\Omega(b,t),\Lambda(t)), \end{align*} $$
    where $(b,t)$ are the coordinates on $\mathbb {B}_j\times \mathbb {T}_j$ , and the functions $\Omega $ , $\Lambda $ are holomorphic, with $\Lambda $ independent of b.

Each open set $\mathbb {U}_i$ is called a flow box. For each $c\in \mathbb {T}_i$ , the Riemann surface $\Phi _i^{-1}\{t=c\}$ in $\mathbb {U}_i$ is called a plaque. Property (2) above ensures that in the intersection of two flow boxes, plaques are mapped to plaques.

A leaf L is a minimal connected subset of M such that if L intersects a plaque, it contains that plaque. A transversal is a Riemann surface immersed in M which is transverse to each leaf of M.

The local theory of singular holomorphic foliations is closely related to holomorphic vector fields. One recalls some basic concepts in $\mathbb {C}^2$ ; see [Reference Brunella5, Reference Fornæss and Sibony11, Reference Nguyên17, Reference Nguyên18].

Definition 2.2. Let $Z=P(z,w){\partial }/{\partial z}+Q(z,w){\partial }/{\partial w}$ be a holomorphic vector field defined in a neighbourhood $\mathbb {U}$ of $(0,0)\in \mathbb {C}^2$ . One says that Z is:

  1. (1) singular at $(0,0)$ if $P(0,0)=Q(0,0)=0$ ;

  2. (2) linear if it can be written as

    $$ \begin{align*} Z=\unicode{x3bb}_1 z\frac{\partial}{\partial z}+\unicode{x3bb}_2 w \frac{\partial}{\partial w} \end{align*} $$
    where $\unicode{x3bb} _1$ , $\unicode{x3bb} _2\in \mathbb {C}$ are not simultaneously zero;
  3. (3) linearizable if it is linear after a biholomorphic change of coordinates.

Suppose the holomorphic vector field $Z=P({\partial }/{\partial z})+Q({\partial }/{\partial w})$ admits a singularity at the origin. Let $\unicode{x3bb} _1$ , $\unicode{x3bb} _2$ be the eigenvalues of the Jacobian matrix $\textstyle (\! \begin {smallmatrix} P_z & P_w \\ Q_z & Q_w \end {smallmatrix} \!)$ at the origin.

Definition 2.3. The singularity is non-degenerate if both $\unicode{x3bb} _1$ , $\unicode{x3bb} _2$ are non-zero. This condition is biholomorphically invariant.

In this paper, all singularities are assumed to be non-degenerate. Then the foliation defined by integral curves of Z has an isolated singularity at $0$ . Degenerate singularities are studied in [Reference Brunella5]. Seidenberg’s reduction theorem [Reference Seidenberg21] shows that degenerate singularities can be resolved into non-degenerate ones after finitely many blow-ups.

Definition 2.4. A singularity of Z is hyperbolic if the quotient $\unicode{x3bb} :=({\unicode{x3bb} _1}/{\unicode{x3bb} _2})\in \mathbb {C}\backslash \mathbb {R}$ . It is non-hyperbolic if $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {R}^*$ . It is in the Poincaré domain if $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {C}\backslash \mathbb {R}_{\leqslant 0}$ . It is in the Siegel domain if $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {R}_{<0}$ .

One can verify that the quotient is unchanged by multiplication of Z by any non-vanishing holomorphic function.

One could consider $\unicode{x3bb} ^{-1}={\unicode{x3bb} _2}/{\unicode{x3bb} _1}$ instead of $\unicode{x3bb} $ , but then $\unicode{x3bb} \notin \mathbb {R}$ if and only if ${\unicode{x3bb} ^{-1}\notin \mathbb {R}}$ . Thus, the notion of hyperbolicity is well defined. Also, being non-hyperbolic, in the Poincaré domain or Siegel domain, is well defined. The complex number $\unicode{x3bb} $ will be called an eigenvalue of Z at the singularity, with an inessential abuse due to this exchange $\unicode{x3bb} \leftrightarrow \unicode{x3bb} ^{-1}$ . The unordered pair $\{\unicode{x3bb} ,\unicode{x3bb} ^{-1}\}$ is invariant under local biholomorphic changes of coordinates.

Consider a holomorphic foliation $(M,E,\mathscr {F}{\kern1.5pt})$ where E is discrete. When one tries to linearize a vector field near an isolated non-degenerate singularity, one has to divide power series coefficients by quantities $m_1+\unicode{x3bb} m_2-1$ and $m_1+\unicode{x3bb} m_2-\unicode{x3bb} $ where $m_1$ , $m_2\in \mathbb {Z}_{\geqslant 0}$ with $m_1+m_2\geqslant 2$ . To ensure convergence, these quantities have to be non-zero and not too close to zero.

These quantities are non-zero if and only if $\unicode{x3bb} \notin \mathbb {Q}_{\neq 1}$ . They do not have $0$ as a limit if and only if $\unicode{x3bb} \notin \mathbb {R}_{\leqslant 0}$ , that is, the singularity is in the Poincaré domain.

We are now ready to state some linearization results in $\mathbb {C}^2$ .

Theorem 2.5. (Poincaré; see [Reference Arnold and Ilyashenko2, Ch. 4, §1.2, pp. 72])

A singular holomorphic vector field in $\mathbb {C}^2$ is holomorphically equivalent to its linear part if its eigenvalue $\unicode{x3bb} \in (\mathbb {C}\backslash \mathbb {R}_{\leqslant 0})\backslash \mathbb {Q}_{\neq 1}$ .

Remark 2.6. The linear part of a singular holomorphic vector field is

$$ \begin{align*} (az+bw)\frac{\partial}{\partial z}+(cz+dw)\frac{\partial}{\partial w} \end{align*} $$

for some $a,b,c,d\in \mathbb {C}$ with $ad-bc\neq 0$ if the singularity is assumed to be non-degenerate. It is non-linearizable if and only if the Jordan normal form of the Jacobian matrix $\textstyle (\! \begin {smallmatrix} a & b\\ c & d \end {smallmatrix} \!)$ has a rank-2 block $\textstyle (\! \begin {smallmatrix} a & 1\\ 0 & a \end {smallmatrix} \!)$ with $a\neq 0$ . In this case $\unicode{x3bb} =1$ , hence Poincaré’s theorem holds. The vector field is holomorphically equivalent to its linear part $(az+w){\partial }/{\partial z}+aw({\partial }/{\partial w})$ , but is not linearizable.

For the resonant case $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {Q}_{\neq {1}}$ and the degenerate case, one may use the Poincaré–Dulac normal form [Reference Arnold and Ilyashenko2, Ch. 3, §3.2, pp. 54].

In particular, all hyperbolic singularities are linearizable.

To get linearization for $\unicode{x3bb} $ in the Siegel domain, the following result assumes the more advanced Brjuno condition.

Theorem 2.7. (Brjuno [Reference Arnold and Ilyashenko2, Reference Brjuno4])

A singular holomorphic vector field with a non-resonant linear part is holomorphically linearizable if its eigenvalue $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {R}$ satisfies the condition

$$ \begin{align*} \sum_{n\geqslant 1}\frac{\log q_{n+1}}{q_n}<\infty, \end{align*} $$

where $p_n/q_n$ is the nth approximant of the continued fraction expansion of $\unicode{x3bb} $ .

The golden ratio

$$ \begin{align*} \frac{\sqrt{5}-1}{2}=1+\frac{1}{1+\frac{1}{1+\cdots}} \end{align*} $$

is a Brjuno number. Indeed, any irrational number whose continued fraction expansion ends with a string of 1s

$$ \begin{align*} \alpha=a_0+\frac{1}{a_1+\frac{1}{\cdots}}=[a_0,a_1,\ldots,a_k,1,1,\ldots]\in\mathbb{R}\backslash\mathbb{Q} \quad(a_0\in\mathbb{Z} ,a_1,\ldots, a_k\in\mathbb{N}), \end{align*} $$

is a Brjuno number. The Brjuno numbers are dense in $\mathbb {R}\backslash \mathbb {Q}$ . See [Reference Lee14, Propositions 1.2 and 1.3].

In this paper, all singularities are assumed to be linearizable.

2.2 Directed harmonic currents

Let $(\mathbb {D}^2,\mathscr {F},\{0\})$ be a holomorphic foliation on the unit bidisc $\mathbb {D}^2$ defined by the linear vector field $Z=z{\partial }/{\partial z}+\unicode{x3bb} w({\partial }/{\partial w})$ with $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {R}^*$ . One may assume $0<|\unicode{x3bb} |\leqslant 1$ after switching z and w if necessary. There are always two separatrices $\{z=0\}$ and $\{w=0\}$ . Other leaves can be parametrized as

(1) $$ \begin{align} L_\alpha:=\{(z,w)=\psi_\alpha(\zeta):= (e^{i \zeta},\alpha e^{i \unicode{x3bb} \zeta})=(e^{-v+i u},\alpha e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i \unicode{x3bb} u})\} \quad (\alpha\neq0), \end{align} $$

where $\zeta =u+iv\in \mathbb {C}$ . The map

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} \Psi:\mathbb{C}\times\mathbb{C}^*&\longrightarrow\mathbb{C}^2\\ (\zeta,\alpha)&\longmapsto (e^{i \zeta},\alpha e^{i \unicode{x3bb} \zeta}) \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

is locally biholomorphic. Here $\alpha $ is the coordinate on the transversal and $\zeta $ is the coordinate on leaves. It is not injective since $\Psi (\zeta +2\pi ,\alpha )=\Psi (\zeta ,\alpha e^{2\pi i\unicode{x3bb} })$ .

Two numbers $\alpha $ , $\beta \in \mathbb {C}^*$ are equivalent $\alpha \sim \beta $ if $\beta =e^{2k\pi i \unicode{x3bb} }\alpha $ for some $k\in \mathbb {Z}$ . The following statements are equivalent:

  • $\alpha \sim \beta $ ;

  • $L_\alpha =L_\beta $ ;

  • $\psi _\alpha =\psi _\beta \circ (\text {translation of }2k\pi )$ for some $k\in \mathbb {Z}$ .

Let $\mathscr {C}_{\mathscr {F}}$ (respectively, $\mathscr {C}_{\mathscr {F}}^{1,1}$ ) denote the space of functions (respectively, forms of bidegree $(1,1)$ ) defined on leaves of the foliation which are compactly supported on $M\backslash E$ , leafwise smooth and transversally continuous. A form $\iota \in \mathscr {C}_{\mathscr {F}}^{1,1}$ is said to be positive if its restriction to every plaque is a positive (1,1)-form.

A directed harmonic current T on $\mathscr {F}$ is a continuous linear form on $\mathscr {C}_{\mathscr {F}}^{1,1}$ satisfying the following two conditions:

  1. (1) $i\partial \bar {\partial } T=0$ in the weak sense, that is, $T(i\partial \bar {\partial }f)=0$ for all $f\in \mathscr {C}_{\mathscr {F}}$ , where in the expression $i\partial \bar {\partial }f$ one only considers $\partial \bar {\partial }$ along the leaves;

  2. (2) T is positive, that is, $T(\iota )\geqslant 0$ for all positive forms $\iota \in \mathscr {C}_{\mathscr {F}}^{1,1}$ .

It is well known (see, for example, [Reference Berndtsson and Sibony3, Reference Dinh, Nguyên and Sibony6, Reference Fornæss and Sibony11]) that a directed harmonic current T on a flow box $\mathbb {U}\cong \mathbb {B}\times \mathbb {T}$ can be locally expressed as

(2) $$ \begin{align} T=\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{T}} h_\alpha [P_\alpha]\, d\mu(\alpha). \end{align} $$

The $h_\alpha $ are non-negative harmonic functions on the local leaves $P_\alpha $ and $\mu $ is a Borel measure on the transversal $\mathbb {T}$ . If $h_\alpha =0$ at some point on $P_\alpha $ , then by the mean value theorem $h_\alpha \equiv 0$ . For all such $\alpha \in \mathbb {T}$ , we replace $h_\alpha $ by the constant function $1$ and we set $d\mu (\alpha )=0$ . Thus, we get a new expression of T where $h_\alpha>0$ for all $\alpha \in \mathbb {T}$ .

Such an expression is not unique since $T=\int _{\alpha \in \mathbb {T}}(h_\alpha g(\alpha ))[P_\alpha ](({1}/{g(\alpha )})\, d\mu (\alpha ))$ for any measurable positive function $g:\mathbb {T}\rightarrow \mathbb {R}_{>0}$ which is finite and non-zero almost everywhere. The expression is unique after normalization, which means that for each $\alpha \in \mathbb {T}$ one fixes $h_\alpha (z_0,w_0)=1$ at some point $(z_0,w_0)\in P_\alpha $ .

Each harmonic function $h_\alpha $ on the leaf $V_\alpha $ can be pulled back by the parametrization $\Psi $ as the harmonic function

$$ \begin{align*} H_\alpha(u,v):=h_\alpha(e^{-v+iu},\alpha e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i\unicode{x3bb} u}). \end{align*} $$

The domain of definition for u, v will be precisely described later in this section.

In §1 the notion of periodic current was introduced. Here is an equivalent characterization.

Proposition 2.8. A directed harmonic current T is periodic if and only if there exists some $k\in \mathbb {Z}_{>0}$ such that $H_\alpha (u+2 k\pi ,v)=H_\alpha (u,v)$ for all $u,v$ and for $\mu $ -almost all $\alpha $ .

Proof. By definition T is invariant under $(z,w)\mapsto (z,e^{2k\pi i \unicode{x3bb} }w)$ for some $k\in \mathbb {Z}_{>0}$ , which is equivalent to $H_\alpha (u+2 k\pi ,v)=H_\alpha (u,v)$ for all $u,v$ and $\mu $ -almost all $\alpha $ .

A current T of the form (2) is $dd^c$ -closed on $\mathbb {D}^2\backslash \{0\}$ . But its trivial extension $\tilde {T}$ across the singularity $0$ is not necessarily $dd^c$ -closed on $\mathbb {D}^2$ . It is true when T is compactly supported, for example when T is a localization of a current on a compact manifold, by the following argument (see [Reference Dinh, Nguyên and Sibony6, Lemma 2.5] for details).

Let T be a directed harmonic current on $M\backslash E$ , where M is a compact complex manifold and E is a finite set. The current T can be extended by zero through E in order to obtain the positive current $\tilde T$ on M. Next, we apply the following result.

Theorem 2.9. (Alessandrini and Bassanelli [Reference Alessandrini and Bassanelli1, Theorem 5.6])

Let $\Omega $ be an open subset of $\mathbb {C}^n$ and Y an analytic subset of $\Omega $ of dimension less than p. Suppose T is a negative current of bidimension $(p,p)$ on $\Omega \backslash Y$ such that $dd^c T\geqslant 0$ . Then the following assertions hold.

  1. (1) The mass of T near Y is locally finite. In particular, T admits a trivial extension by $0$ across Y, denoted by $\tilde {T}$ .

  2. (2) $dd^c\tilde {T}\geqslant 0$ on $\Omega $ .

Here $-T$ is a negative current of bidimension $(1,1)$ on $M\backslash E$ with $dd^c (-T)\geqslant 0$ and E has dimension $0$ . So for the trivial extension $\tilde {T}$ on M one has $dd^c(-\tilde {T})\geqslant 0$ . Moreover, $\tilde {T}$ is compactly supported since M is compact. Thus

$$ \begin{align*} \langle dd^c\tilde{T},1 \rangle = \langle \tilde{T},dd^c1 \rangle = 0. \end{align*} $$

Combining with $dd^c\tilde {T}\leqslant 0$ from the extension theorem, one concludes that $dd^c\tilde {T}=0$ on M. Thus, locally near any singularity, the trivial extension $\tilde {T}$ is $dd^c$ -closed.

Let $\beta :=idz\wedge d\bar {z}+idw\wedge d\bar {w}$ be the standard Kähler form on $\mathbb {C}^2$ . The mass of T on a domain $U\subset \mathbb {D}^2$ is denoted by $\|T\|_U:=\int _U T\wedge \beta $ . In this paper, all currents are assumed to have finite mass on $\mathbb {D}^2$ .

Definition 2.10. (See [Reference Nguyên19, §2.4])

Let T be a directed harmonic current on $(\mathbb {D}^2,\mathscr {F},\{0\})$ . We define the Lelong number by the limit

$$ \begin{align*} \mathscr{L}(T,0)=\limsup\limits_{r\rightarrow0+}\frac{1}{\pi r^2}\|T\|_{r\mathbb{D}^2}\in[0,+\infty]. \end{align*} $$

The limit can be infinite when the trivial extension $\tilde {T}$ across the origin is not $dd^c$ -closed [Reference Nguyên19, Example 2.11]. When $\tilde {T}$ is $dd^c$ -closed, the following theorem ensures the finiteness.

Theorem 2.11. (Skoda [Reference Skoda22])

Let T be a positive $dd^c$ -closed $(1,1)$ -current in $\mathbb {D}^2$ . Then the function $r\mapsto {1}/{\pi r^2}\|T\|_{r\mathbb {D}^2}$ is increasing with $r\in (0, 1]$ .

In our case, the function

$$ \begin{align*} r\mapsto \frac{1}{\pi r^2}\|\tilde{T}\|_{r\mathbb{D}^2}=\frac{1}{\pi r^2}\|T\|_{r\mathbb{D}^2} \end{align*} $$

is increasing with $r\in (0, 1]$ . In particular,

$$ \begin{align*} \mathscr{L}(T,0)=\lim\limits_{r\rightarrow0+}\frac{1}{\pi r^2}\|T\|_{r\mathbb{D}^2}\in\bigg[0,\dfrac{1}{\pi}\|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}\bigg]. \end{align*} $$

In this paper, the symbols $\lesssim $ and $\gtrsim $ stand for inequalities up to a multiplicative positive constant depending only on $\unicode{x3bb} $ . We write $\approx $ when both inequalities are satisfied.

3 Parametrization of leaves

Recall the parametrization of an arbitrary leaf $L_\alpha $ :

$$ \begin{align*} \psi_\alpha(\zeta)=\Psi(\zeta,\alpha)=(e^{i \zeta},\alpha e^{i \unicode{x3bb} \zeta}) \quad(\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*,\zeta\in\mathbb{C}). \end{align*} $$

To calculate the mass $\|T\|_{\mathbb {D}^2}$ and the Lelong number $\mathscr {L}(T,0)$ , we shall study $\Psi ^{-1}(r \mathbb {D}^2)$ for $r\in (0,1]$ . Define $P_\alpha :=L_\alpha \cap \mathbb {D}^2$ and $P_\alpha ^{(r)}:=L_\alpha \cap r \mathbb {D}^2$ . Define $\log ^+(x):=\max \{0,\log (x)\}$ for $x>0$ .

Lemma 3.1. The range of $(u,v)$ for a point $(z,w)\in P_\alpha $ and $P_{\alpha }^{(r)}$ is an upper half-plane when $\unicode{x3bb}>0$ , or a horizontal strip when $\unicode{x3bb} <0$ . More precisely:

  1. (1) when $\unicode{x3bb}>0$ ,

    $$ \begin{align*} (z,w)\in P_\alpha & \Longleftrightarrow\, v>\frac{\log^+|\alpha|}{\unicode{x3bb}},\\ (z,w)\in P_\alpha^{(r)} & \Longleftrightarrow \left\{ \begin{aligned} &v>\frac{\log|\alpha|-\log r}{\unicode{x3bb}} & (|\alpha|\geqslant r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}),\\ &v>-\log r & (|\alpha|<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}); \end{aligned} \right. \end{align*} $$
  2. (2) when $\unicode{x3bb} <0$ , $P_\alpha =\emptyset $ for $|\alpha |\geqslant 1$ , $P_\alpha ^{(r)}=\emptyset $ for $|\alpha |\geqslant r^{1-\unicode{x3bb} }$ and for the other $\alpha $ ,

    $$ \begin{align*} (z,w)\in P_\alpha & \Longleftrightarrow\, 0<v<\frac{\log|\alpha|}{\unicode{x3bb}},\\ (z,w)\in P_\alpha^{(r)} & \Longleftrightarrow -\log r<v<\frac{\log|\alpha|-\log r}{\unicode{x3bb}}. \end{align*} $$

Proof. Recall that $(z,w)=(e^{-v+i u},\alpha e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i \unicode{x3bb} u})$ on $L_{\alpha }$ . So for any $r\in (0,1]$ , $(z,w)\in P_\alpha ^{(r)}$ if and only if both $|z|=e^{-v}<r$ and $|w|=|\alpha | e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v}<r$ .

When $\unicode{x3bb}>0$ one has $v>-\log r$ and $v>({\log |\alpha |-\log r})/{\unicode{x3bb} }$ . In particular, for $r=1$ , one has $v>0$ and $v>{\log |\alpha |}/{\unicode{x3bb} }$ .

When $\unicode{x3bb} <0$ one has $-\log r<v<({\log |\alpha |-\log r})/{\unicode{x3bb} }$ . In particular, for $r=1$ , one has $0<v<{\log |\alpha |}/{\unicode{x3bb} }$ . If there is no solution for v then $P_{\alpha }^{(r)}=\emptyset $ .

When $\unicode{x3bb}>0$ , the range of v is unbounded for each fixed $\alpha \in \mathbb {C}^*$ . See Figures 1 and 2.

When $\unicode{x3bb} <0$ , the range of v is bounded for each fixed $\alpha $ . See Figures 3 and 4.

Figure 1 The region of $(|\alpha |,v)$ for $P_\alpha $ .

Figure 2 The region of $(|\alpha |,v)$ for $P_\alpha ^{(r)}$ .

Figure 3 The region of $(|\alpha |,v)$ for $P_\alpha $ .

Figure 4 The region of $(|\alpha |,v)$ for $P_\alpha ^{(r)}$ .

Figure 5 Case $|\alpha |<1$ .

3.1 Positive case $\unicode{x3bb}>0$

For any $\alpha \in \mathbb {C}^*$ fixed, the leaf $L_\alpha $ is contained in a real three-dimensional Levi flat CR manifoldFootnote 1 $|w|=|\alpha | |z|^{\unicode{x3bb} }$ , which can be viewed as a curve in $|z|=e^{-v}$ , $|w|=|\alpha | e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v}$ coordinates. The norms $|z|$ and $|w|$ depend only on v. When $v\rightarrow +\infty $ , the point on the leaf tends to the singularity $(0,0)$ described by Figures 5 and 6.

Figure 6 Case $|\alpha |\geqslant 1$ .

If one fixes some $v=-\log r$ , then $|z|=r$ and $|w|=|\alpha | r^\unicode{x3bb} $ is fixed. The set $\mathbb {T}^2_r:=\{(z,w)\in \mathbb {D}^2:|z|=r,|w|=|\alpha | r^\unicode{x3bb} \}$ is a torus and the intersection of the leaf $L_\alpha $ with this torus is a smooth curve $L_{\alpha ,r}:=L_\alpha \cap \mathbb {T}^2_r$ .

When $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {Q}$ , this curve $L_{\alpha ,r}$ is closed. See Figure 7.

When $\unicode{x3bb} \notin \mathbb {Q}$ , this curve $L_{\alpha ,r}$ is dense on the torus $\mathbb {T}_r^2$ . See Figures 8 and 9.

In this case the two curves $L_{\alpha ,r}$ and $L_{\alpha e^{2\pi i \unicode{x3bb} },r}$ are two different parametrizations of the same image. The dashed curve in Figure 8 is not only the image of $L_{\alpha ,r}$ for $u\in [2\pi ,4\pi )$ but also the image of $L_{\alpha e^{2\pi i \unicode{x3bb} },r}$ for $u\in [0,2\pi )$ . This raises ambiguity while normalizing harmonic functions on a leaf $L_\alpha $ .

Such ambiguity can be resolved once one restricts everything to an open subset $U_\epsilon :=\{(z,w)\in \mathbb {D}^2~|~{\textrm {arg}}(z)\in (0,2\pi -\epsilon ),z\neq 0,w\neq 0\}$ for some fixed $\epsilon \in [0,\pi )$ . Any leaf $L_\alpha $ on $U_\epsilon $ decomposes into a disjoint union of infinitely many components:

$$ \begin{align*} L_\alpha\cap U_\epsilon=\bigcup\limits_{k\in\mathbb{Z}}\!\bigg\{(e^{-v+iu},\alpha e^{2k\pi i\unicode{x3bb}} e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i\unicode{x3bb} u})~|~u\kern1.2pt{\in}\kern1.2pt(0,2\pi-\epsilon),v\kern1.2pt{>}\kern1.2pt\frac{\log^+|\alpha|}{\unicode{x3bb}}\bigg\}. \end{align*} $$

For example, in Figure 10, the curve and the dashed curve are two distinct components of $L_{1,1}\cup U_{\epsilon}$ .

Figure 7 A closed curve on a torus.

Figure 8 Two loops.

Figure 9 Twenty loops.

Figure 10 Two components of $L_{1,1}\cup U_{\epsilon}$ .

Such a parametrization is yet not unique. For example, for any $k_0\in \mathbb {Z}$ one can parametrize

$$ \begin{align*} L_\alpha\cap U_\epsilon=\bigcup\limits_{k\in\mathbb{Z}}\!\bigg\{\!(e^{-v+iu},\alpha e^{2k\pi i\unicode{x3bb}} e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i\unicode{x3bb} u})\kern1.2pt{|}\kern1.2pt u\kern1.2pt{\in}\kern1.2pt(2k_0\pi,2k_0\pi+2\pi-\epsilon),v>\frac{\log^+|\alpha|}{\unicode{x3bb}}\bigg\}\kern-1pt. \end{align*} $$

The parametrization is unique once one fixes $k_0$ , for example, $k_0=0$ . I remark for the time being that all other choices of $k_0$ will be used for analysing non-periodic currents in §5.2.

3.2 Resolving ambiguity in the irrational case

Let $\unicode{x3bb} \notin \mathbb {Q}$ . Let T be a harmonic current directed by $\mathscr {F}$ . Then $T|_{P_\alpha }$ has the form $h_\alpha (z,w)[P_\alpha ]$ . One may assume that $h_\alpha $ is nowhere 0 for every $\alpha $ . Let

$$ \begin{align*} H_\alpha(u+iv):=h_\alpha\circ \psi_\alpha\bigg(u+iv+i\frac{\log^+|\alpha|}{\unicode{x3bb}}\bigg). \end{align*} $$

This is a positive harmonic function for $\mu $ -almost all $\alpha \in \mathbb {C}^*$ defined in a neighbourhood of the upper half-plane $\mathbb {H}=\{(u+iv)\in \mathbb {C}~|~v>0\}$ , determined by the Poisson integral formula

$$ \begin{align*} H_\alpha(u+iv)=\frac{1}{\pi} \int_{y\in\mathbb{R}}H_\alpha(y) \frac{v} {v^2+(y-u)^2} dy+C_\alpha v. \end{align*} $$

One can normalize $H_\alpha $ by setting $H_\alpha (0)=1$ . But by doing so one may normalize data over the same leaf for multiple times. Indeed, any pair of equivalent numbers $\alpha \sim \beta $ in $\mathbb {C}^*$ , $\beta =\alpha e^{2k\pi i \unicode{x3bb} }$ , may provide us with two different normalizations $H_{\alpha }$ and $H_{\beta }$ on the same leaf $L_{\alpha }=L_{\beta }$ . A major task is to find formulas for the mass and the Lelong number independent by the choice of normalization.

The ambiguity is described by the following proposition.

Proposition 3.2. If $\beta =\alpha e^{2k \pi i \unicode{x3bb} }$ for some $k\in \mathbb {Z}$ , then the two normalized positive harmonic functions $H_\alpha $ and $H_\beta $ satisfy

$$ \begin{align*} H_\alpha(u+iv) = H_\alpha(2k\pi) H_\beta(u-2k\pi+iv). \end{align*} $$

In other words, they differ by a translation and a multiplication by a non-zero constant.

Proof. When $|\alpha |<1$ , by definition

$$ \begin{align*} H_\alpha(u+iv)=h_\alpha(e^{-v+iu},\alpha e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i \unicode{x3bb} u}), \quad H_\alpha(0)=h_\alpha(1,\alpha). \end{align*} $$

Thus, the normalized harmonic function is

$$ \begin{align*} H_\alpha(u+iv)=\frac{h_\alpha(e^{-v+iu},\alpha e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i \unicode{x3bb} u})}{h_\alpha(1,\alpha)}, \end{align*} $$

and for the same reason

$$ \begin{align*}H_\beta(u+iv)=\frac{h_\beta(e^{-v+iu},\beta e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i \unicode{x3bb} u})}{h_\beta(1,\beta)}. \end{align*} $$

The two functions $h_\alpha $ and $h_\beta $ are the positive harmonic coefficient of T on the same leaf $L_\alpha =L_\beta $ , hence they differ up to multiplication by a positive constant $C>0$ :

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} h_\alpha(e^{-v+iu},\alpha e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i \unicode{x3bb} u})&=C\cdot h_\beta(e^{-v+iu},\alpha e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i \unicode{x3bb} u})\\ &=C\cdot h_\beta(e^{-v+iu},\beta e^{-2k \pi i \unicode{x3bb}} e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i \unicode{x3bb} u})\\ &=C\cdot h_\beta(e^{-v+i(u-2k \pi)},\beta e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i \unicode{x3bb} (u-2k \pi)}). \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

Thus,

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} H_\alpha(u+iv)&=\frac{h_\alpha(e^{-v+iu},\alpha e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i \unicode{x3bb} u})}{h_\alpha(1,\alpha)}=\frac{C\cdot h_\beta(e^{-v+i(u-2k \pi)},\beta e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i \unicode{x3bb} (u-2k \pi)})}{C\cdot h_\beta(1,\alpha)}\\ &=\frac{h_\beta(e^{-v+i(u-2k \pi)},\beta e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i \unicode{x3bb} (u-2k \pi)})}{h_\beta(1,\beta)}\cdot \frac{h_\beta(1,\beta)}{h_\beta(1,\alpha)}\\ &=H_\beta(u-2k \pi+iv)\cdot \frac{h_\beta(1,\beta)}{h_\beta(1,\alpha)}. \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

When $u=2k \pi $ and $v=0$ one has $H_\alpha (2k \pi )={h_\beta (1,\beta )}/{h_\beta (1,\alpha )}$ . Thus, one gets the equality. The proof for the case $|\alpha |>1$ is similar.

Take the open subset $U:=\{(z,w)\in \mathbb {D}^2~|~z\notin \mathbb {R}_{\geqslant 0},w\neq 0\}$ . See Figures 11 and 12.

Figure 11 Domain U in coordinates $(z,w)$ .

Figure 12 Domain U in coordinates $(u,v)$ .

Any leaf $L_\alpha $ in U is a disjoint union of infinitely many components. Once $\alpha $ is fixed, there is a one-to-one correspondence between these components and strips in Figure 12.

$$ \begin{align*} L_\alpha\cap U=\bigcup\limits_{k\in\mathbb{Z}}\tilde{L}_{\alpha e^{2k\pi i\unicode{x3bb}}}:=\bigcup\limits_{k\in\mathbb{Z}}\!\bigg\{(e^{-v+iu},\alpha e^{2k\pi i\unicode{x3bb}} e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i\unicode{x3bb} u})\kern1.2pt{|}\kern1.2pt u\kern1.2pt{\in}\kern1.2pt(0,2\pi),v\kern1.2pt{>}\kern1.2pt\frac{\log^+|\alpha|}{\unicode{x3bb}}\bigg\}. \end{align*} $$

Normalizing $H_{\alpha e^{2k\pi i\unicode{x3bb} }}$ on $\tilde {L}_{\alpha e^{2k\pi i\unicode{x3bb} }}$ avoids ambiguity. Thus, the mass

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} \|T\|_{U}&=\int_{(z,w)\in U}T\wedge i\partial\bar{\partial}(|z|^2+|w|^2)\\ &=\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{v>{\log^+|\alpha|}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi}H_{\alpha}(u+iv) 2(e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,du\, dv\, d\mu(\alpha)\\ &=\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{v>0}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi}H_{\alpha}(u+iv)\|\psi_\alpha'\|^{2}\, du\, dv\, d\mu(\alpha) \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

for some positive measure $\mu $ on $\mathbb {C}^*$ . Here, $\|\psi _\alpha '\|^2$ is the jacobian coming from the $(1,1)$ -form $i\partial \bar {\partial }(|z|^2+|w|^2)$ on $L_\alpha $ after a change of coordinates and a translation on v:

(3) $$ \begin{align} \|\psi_\alpha'\|^2=\left\{ \begin{aligned} &2(e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) & (|\alpha|< 1),\\ &2(|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) & (|\alpha|\geqslant 1). \end{aligned} \right. \end{align} $$

Since H is harmonic in a neighbourhood of $\mathbb {H}$ , it is continuous in $\mathbb {H}$ . So

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} \|T\|_{U}&=\lim\limits_{\epsilon\rightarrow 0+}\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{v>0}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi+\epsilon}H_{\alpha}(u+iv)\|\psi_\alpha'\|^2 \,du\, dv\, d\mu(\alpha)\\ &=\lim\limits_{\epsilon\rightarrow0+}\|T\|_{\bigcup\limits_{k\in\mathbb{Z}}\tilde{L}_{\alpha e^{2k \pi i\unicode{x3bb}}}}\\ &=\|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}. \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

Thus, we can express the mass by a formula independent of the choice of normalization

$$ \begin{align*} \|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}=\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{v>0}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi}H_{\alpha}(u+iv)\|\psi_\alpha'\|^2 \,du\, dv\, d\mu(\alpha). \end{align*} $$

Lemma 3.3. For each $k_0\in \mathbb {Z}$ fixed,

(4) $$ \begin{align} \|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}=\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{v>0}\int_{u=2k_0\pi}^{2k_0\pi+2\pi}H_{\alpha}(u+iv)\|\psi_\alpha'\|^2 \,du \,dv \,d\mu(\alpha). \end{align} $$

Proof. The disjoint union $L_\alpha \cap U=\bigcup \nolimits _{k\in \mathbb {Z}}\tilde {L}_{\alpha e^{2k\pi i\unicode{x3bb} }}$ can be parametrized in many other ways. For instance,

$$ \begin{align*} L_\alpha\cap U=\bigcup\limits_{k\in\mathbb{Z}}\bigg\{(e^{-v+iu},\alpha e^{2k\pi i\unicode{x3bb}} e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i\unicode{x3bb} u})~|~u\in(2k_0\pi,2k_0\pi+2\pi),v>\dfrac{\log^+|\alpha|}{\unicode{x3bb}}\bigg\}. \end{align*} $$

By the same argument as above one concludes.

3.3 Negative case $\unicode{x3bb} <0$

As in the positive case, for any $\alpha \in \mathbb {C}^*$ fixed, the leaf $L_\alpha $ is contained in a real three-dimensional analytic Levi-flat CR manifold $|w|=|\alpha | |z|^{\unicode{x3bb} }$ , which can be viewed as a curve in $|z|,|w|$ coordinates. The norms $|z|$ and $|w|$ depend only on v.

The difference is that in the negative case, no leaf $L_\alpha $ tends to the singularity $(0,0)$ . For r sufficiently small, the leaf $L_\alpha $ is outside of $r \mathbb {D}^2$ . See Figure 13.

Figure 13 Case $\unicode{x3bb} <0$ .

Like the positive case $\unicode{x3bb}>0$ , when one fixes $|z|=r$ for some $r\in (0,1)$ , $|w|=|\alpha | |z|^\unicode{x3bb} $ is uniquely determined and the real two-dimensional leaf $L_\alpha $ becomes a real 1-dimensional curve $L_{\alpha ,r}:=L_\alpha \cap \mathbb {T}^2_r$ on the torus $\mathbb {T}^2_r:=\{(z,w)\in \mathbb {D}^2~|~|z|=r,|w|=|\alpha | r^\unicode{x3bb} \}$ . It is a closed curve if $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {Q}$ , and a dense curve on $\mathbb {T}^2_r$ if $\unicode{x3bb} \notin \mathbb {Q}$ .

Let T be a harmonic current directed by $\mathscr {F}$ . Then $T|_{P_\alpha }$ has the form $h_\alpha (z,w)[P_\alpha ]$ . Let $H_\alpha :=h_\alpha \circ \psi _\alpha (u+iv)$ . It is a positive harmonic function for $\mu $ -almost all $\alpha \in \mathbb {D}^*$ defined on a neighbourhood of a horizontal strip $\{(u,v)\in \mathbb {R}^2~|~0<v<{\log |\alpha |}/{\unicode{x3bb} }\}$ .

As in the case $\unicode{x3bb}>0$ , one only calculates the mass on an open subset $U:=\{(z,w)\in \mathbb {D}^2~|~z\notin \mathbb {R}_{\geqslant 0},w\neq 0\}$ . For each $\alpha \in \mathbb {D}^*$ one normalizes $H_\alpha $ by setting $H_\alpha (0)=1$ to fix the expression $T:=\int h_\alpha [P_\alpha ]\, d\mu (\alpha )$ . Similarly to Lemma 3.3, for each $k_0\in \mathbb {Z}$ fixed,

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} \|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2} &=\int_{0<|\alpha|<1}\!\int_{v=0}^{{\log|\alpha|}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}\!\int_{u=2 k_0 \pi}^{2 k_0 \pi+2 \pi}\!\kern-1.2pt H_\alpha(u+iv) 2 (e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,du \,dv\, d\mu(\alpha),\\ \mathscr{L}(T,0)&=\lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}\frac{1}{r^2}\|T\|_{r\mathbb{D}^2}\\ & =\lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}\frac{1}{r^2}\int_{0<|\alpha|<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}\int_{v=-\log r}^{({\log|\alpha|-\log r})/{\unicode{x3bb}}}\int_{u=2 k_0 \pi}^{2 k_0 \pi+2 \pi} \\&\qquad\qquad\qquad\ \kern1pt\qquad\qquad H_\alpha(u+iv) 2 (e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,du \,dv \,d\mu(\alpha). \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

These formulas will be calculated in later sections.

4 Positive rational case: $\unicode{x3bb} =({a}/{b})\in \mathbb {Q}$ , $\unicode{x3bb} \in (0,1]$

Write $\unicode{x3bb} ={a}/{b}$ where $a,b\in \mathbb {Z}_{\geqslant 1}$ are coprime. Then in $\mathbb {D}^2$ , for any $\alpha \in \mathbb {C}^*$ , the union $L_\alpha \cup \{0\}$ is the algebraic curve $\{w^b=\alpha ^b z^a\}\cap \mathbb {D}^2$ . In other words, every leaf is a separatrix. In this section it will be shown that any directed harmonic current T has non-zero Lelong number.

The parametrization map $\psi _\alpha (\zeta ):=(e^{i\zeta },\alpha e^{i\unicode{x3bb} \zeta })$ is now periodic: $\psi _\alpha (\zeta +2\pi b)=\psi _\alpha (\zeta )$ . Let T be a directed harmonic current. Then $T|_{P_\alpha }$ has the form $h_\alpha (z,w)[P_\alpha ]$ . Let

$$ \begin{align*} H_\alpha(u+iv):=h_\alpha\circ\psi_\alpha\bigg(u+iv+i\frac{\log^+|\alpha|}{\unicode{x3bb}}\bigg). \end{align*} $$

This is a positive harmonic function for $\mu $ -almost all $\alpha \in \mathbb {C}^*$ defined in a neighbourhood of the upper half-plane $\mathbb {H}:=\{(u+iv)\in \mathbb {C}~|~v>0\}$ . Moreover, it is periodic: $H_\alpha (u+iv)=H_\alpha (u+2\pi b+iv)$ . Periodic harmonic functions can be characterized by the following lemma.

Lemma 4.1. Let $F(u,v)$ be a harmonic function in a neighbourhood of $\mathbb {H}$ . If $F(u,v)=F(u+2\pi b,v)$ for all $(u,v)\in \mathbb {H}$ , then

$$ \begin{align*} F(u,v)=\sum\limits_{k\in\mathbb{Z},k\neq 0}\bigg(a_k e^{{kv}/{b}}\cos\bigg(\frac{ku}{b}\bigg)+b_k e^{{kv}/{b}}\sin\bigg(\frac{ku}{b}\bigg)\bigg)+a_0+b_0 v, \end{align*} $$

for some $a_k$ , $b_k\in \mathbb {R}$ . Moreover, if $F|_{\mathbb {H}}\geqslant 0$ , then $a_0,b_0\geqslant 0$ .

Proof. By periodicity

$$ \begin{align*} F(u,v)=\sum\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}\bigg(A_k(v) \cos\bigg(\frac{ku}{b}\bigg)+B_k(v) \sin\bigg(\frac{ku}{b}\bigg)\bigg)+A_0(v), \end{align*} $$

for some functions $A_k(v)$ , $B_k(v)$ . They are smooth since F is harmonic. Moreover,

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} 0&=\Delta F(u,v)\\ &=\sum\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}\!\bigg(\!\bigg(A_k''(v)\kern1.2pt{-}\kern1.2pt\bigg(\frac{k}{b}\bigg)^2 A_k(v)\!\bigg)\!\cos\!\bigg(\frac{ku}{b}\bigg)+\bigg(\!B_k''(v)\kern1.2pt{-}\kern1.2pt\bigg(\frac{k}{b}\bigg)^2 B_k(v)\!\bigg)\!\sin\!\bigg(\frac{ku}{b}\bigg)\!\bigg)+A_0''(v). \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

Thus,

$$ \begin{align*} A_k''(v)=\bigg(\frac{k}{b}\bigg)^2 A_k(v), \quad B_k''(v)=\bigg(\frac{k}{b}\bigg)^2 B_k(v), \quad A_0''(v)=0. \end{align*} $$

Hence,

$$ \begin{align*} A_k(v)=a_k e^{{kv}/{b}}+a_{-k} e^{-{kv}/{b}}, \quad B_k(v)=b_k e^{{kv}/{b}}-b_{-k} e^{-{kv}/{b}}, \quad A_0(v)=a_0+b_0 v, \end{align*} $$

for some $a_k$ , $a_{-k}$ , $b_k$ , $b_{-k}\in \mathbb {R}$ . One obtains the equality.

If $F|_{\mathbb {H}}\geqslant 0$ , then for any $v\geqslant 0$ ,

$$ \begin{align*} \int_{u=0}^{2\pi b}F(u,v)\,du=2\pi b(a_0+b_0 v)\geqslant0. \end{align*} $$

Thus, $a_0,b_0\geqslant 0.$

For $\alpha ,\beta \in \mathbb {C}^*$ , the two maps $\psi _\alpha $ and $\psi _\beta $ parametrize the same leaf $L_\alpha =L_\beta $ if and only if $\beta =\alpha e^{2\pi i ({k}/{b})}$ for some $k\in \mathbb {Z}$ , that is $\alpha $ and $\beta $ differ from multiplying a bth root of unity. Thus, a transversal can be chosen as the sector $\mathbb {S}:=\{\alpha \in \mathbb {C}^*~|~{\textrm {arg}}(\alpha )\in [0,{2\pi }/{b})\}$ . One fixes a normalization by setting $H_\alpha (0)=h_\alpha \circ \psi _\alpha (i({\log ^+|\alpha |}/{\unicode{x3bb} }))=1$ .

The mass of the current T is

$$ \begin{align*} \|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}=\int_{(z,w)\in\mathbb{D}^2}T\wedge i\partial\bar{\partial}(|z|^2+|w|^2). \end{align*} $$

In particular, one calculates the $(1,1)$ -form $i\partial \bar {\partial }(|z|^2+|w|^2)$ on $L_\alpha $ , where $z=e^{-v+iu},w=\alpha e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i\unicode{x3bb} u}$ , using

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} dz&=ie^{-v+iu}\,du-e^{-v+iu}\,dv, & d\bar{z}&=-ie^{-v-iu}\,du-e^{-v-iu}\,dv,\\ dw&=i\alpha \unicode{x3bb} e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i\unicode{x3bb} u}\,du-\alpha \unicode{x3bb} e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v+i\unicode{x3bb} u}\,dv, & d\bar{w}&=-i\bar{\alpha} \unicode{x3bb} e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v-i\unicode{x3bb} u}\,du-\bar{\alpha} \unicode{x3bb} e^{-\unicode{x3bb} v-i\unicode{x3bb} u}\,dv, \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

whence

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} i\partial\bar{\partial}(|z|^2+|w|^2)&=i\,dz\wedge d\bar{z}+i\,dw\wedge d\bar{w}\\ &=2(e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v} )\,du\wedge dv. \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

Thus,

$$ \begin{align*} \|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}&=\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S}}h_\alpha(z,w)\int_{P_\alpha}i\partial\bar{\partial}(|z|^2+|w|^2)\, d\mu(\alpha)\\ &=\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S}}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi b}\int_{v>0}H_\alpha(u+iv) 2(e^{-2(v+{\log^+|\alpha|}/{\unicode{x3bb}})}\\ &\qquad\qquad\qquad+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} (v+{\log^+|\alpha|}/{\unicode{x3bb}})}) \,du\wedge dv \,d\mu(\alpha)\\ &=\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},|\alpha|<1}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi b}\int_{v>0}H_\alpha(u+iv) 2(e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v})\, du\wedge dv \,d\mu(\alpha)\\ & \quad +\!\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},|\alpha|\geqslant1}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi b}\!\int_{v>0}H_\alpha(u+iv) 2(|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v})\, du\wedge dv\, d\mu(\alpha). \end{align*} $$

By Lemma 4.1,

(5) $$ \begin{align} H_\alpha(u+iv)=\!\sum\limits_{k\in\mathbb{Z},k\neq 0}\!\bigg(a_k( \alpha) e^{{kv}/{b}}\cos\!\bigg(\frac{ku}{b}\bigg)+b_k(\alpha) e^{{kv}/{b}}\sin\!\bigg(\frac{ku}{b}\bigg)\!\bigg)+a_0(\alpha)+b_0(\alpha) v, \end{align} $$

where $a_0(\alpha )$ , $b_0(\alpha )$ are positive for $\mu $ -almost all $\alpha $ . Thus,

$$ \begin{align*} &\|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}\\ &\quad=2\pi b\bigg\{\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},|\alpha|<1}\int_{v>0}(a_0(\alpha)+b_0(\alpha) v) 2(e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,dv\, d\mu(\alpha)\\ & \qquad+\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},|\alpha|\geqslant1}\int_{v>0}(a_0(\alpha)+b_0(\alpha) v) 2(|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,dv\, d\mu(\alpha)\bigg\}\\ &\quad=2\pi b \bigg\{\!\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},|\alpha|<1}a_0(\alpha) (1+|\alpha|^2 \unicode{x3bb})\, d\mu(\alpha)+\!\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},|\alpha|\geqslant1}a_0(\alpha) (|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}+\unicode{x3bb})\, d\mu(\alpha)\\ & \qquad +\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},|\alpha|<1}\!b_0(\alpha) \kern-1pt\bigg(\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{2}|\alpha|^2\bigg)\, d\mu(\alpha)+\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},|\alpha|\geqslant1}\!b_0(\alpha) \kern-1pt\bigg(\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{2}|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}\bigg)\, d\mu(\alpha)\!\bigg\}\\ &\quad\approx \int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S}}a_0(\alpha)\, d\mu(\alpha)+\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S}}b_0(\alpha)\, d\mu(\alpha). \end{align*} $$

The Lelong number can now be calculated as follows:

$$ \begin{align*} ~&\mathscr{L}(T,0)\\ &\quad=\lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}\frac{1}{r^2}\|T\|_{r\mathbb{D}^2}\\ &\quad=\lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}\frac{1}{r^2}2\pi b \bigg\{\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},|\alpha|<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}\int_{v>-\log r}(a_0(\alpha)+b_0(\alpha)v) 2 (e^{-2v}\\ &\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,dv\, d\mu(\alpha)\\ & \qquad + \int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}\leqslant|\alpha|<1}\int_{v>({\log|\alpha|-\log r})/{\unicode{x3bb}}}(a_0(\alpha)+b_0(\alpha)v) 2 (e^{-2v}\\[-4pt] &\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,dv\, d\mu(\alpha)\\ & \qquad + \int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},|\alpha|\geqslant1}\int_{v>{-\log r}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}(a_0(\alpha)+b_0(\alpha)v) 2 (|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,dv\, d\mu(\alpha)\bigg\}\\ &\quad=\lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}2\pi b \bigg\{\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},|\alpha|<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}a_0(\alpha) (1+\unicode{x3bb} |\alpha|^2 r^{2\unicode{x3bb}-2})\, d\mu(\alpha)\\ & \qquad +\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},|\alpha|\geqslant r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}a_0(\alpha) (|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}-2}+\unicode{x3bb})\, d\mu(\alpha)\\ & \qquad+\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},|\alpha|< r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}b_0(\alpha) \bigg(\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{2}|\alpha|^2 r^{2\unicode{x3bb}-2}-\log r-\unicode{x3bb} |\alpha|^2 r^{2\unicode{x3bb}-2} \log r\bigg)\, d\mu(\alpha)\\ & \qquad+\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}\leqslant|\alpha|<1}b_0(\alpha) \bigg(\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{2}|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}-2}-\log r-|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} \unicode{x3bb}^{-1} r^{2\unicode{x3bb}-2}\log r\\[-4pt] & \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \quad+\log |\alpha|+\unicode{x3bb}^{-1} |\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} \log|\alpha| r^{2\unicode{x3bb}-2}\bigg)\, d\mu(\alpha)\\[-4pt] & \qquad+\!\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},|\alpha|\geqslant 1}\kern-1.2pt b_0(\alpha) \bigg(\frac{1}{2}\kern1.2pt{+}\kern1.2pt\frac{1}{2}|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}-2}-\log r\kern1.2pt{-}\kern1.2pt\unicode{x3bb}^{-1} |\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} r^{2\unicode{x3bb}-2}\log r\kern-1pt\bigg)\, d\mu(\alpha) \kern-1pt\bigg\}\kern-0.2pt. \end{align*} $$

First one analyses the $a_0(\alpha )$ part. When $|\alpha |<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb} }$ ,

(6) $$ \begin{align} 1<1+\unicode{x3bb} |\alpha|^2 r^{2\unicode{x3bb}-2}<1+\unicode{x3bb} r^{2-2\unicode{x3bb}} r^{2\unicode{x3bb}-2}=1+\unicode{x3bb}, \end{align} $$

is uniformly bounded with respect to $\alpha $ and r. When $|\alpha |\geqslant r^{1-\unicode{x3bb} }$

(7) $$ \begin{align} \unicode{x3bb}<|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}-2}+\unicode{x3bb}<1+\unicode{x3bb}, \end{align} $$

is also uniformly bounded with respect to $\alpha $ and r. Thus,

$$ \begin{align*} {\mathscr{L}}(T,0) \approx \underbrace{\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S}}a_0(\alpha)\, d\mu(\alpha)}_{\text{linear part}} + \underbrace{\lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}(b_0(\alpha) \text{part})}_{\text{with } v \text{ part}}. \end{align*} $$

Next one analyses the $b_0(\alpha )$ part.

Lemma 4.2. The Lelong number of T at $0$ is finite only if $b_0(\alpha )=0$ for $\mu $ -almost all $\alpha \in \mathbb {S}$ .

Proof. Suppose not, that is, $\int _{\alpha \in \mathbb {S}}b_0(\alpha )\, d\mu (\alpha )=B_0>0$ . Then

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} \mathscr{L}(T,0)&\geqslant\lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}2\pi b\bigg\{\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},|\alpha|< r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}b_0(\alpha) (-\log r)\, d\mu(\alpha)\\ &\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ +\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S},|\alpha|\geqslant r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}b_0(\alpha) (-\log r)\, d\mu(\alpha)\bigg\}\\ &=2\pi b B_0 \lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}(-\log r)=+\infty, \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

contradicting the finiteness of the Lelong number stated in Theorem 2.11.

Thus, one may assume $b_0(\alpha )=0$ for $\mu $ -almost all $\alpha \in \mathbb {S}$ . Then the Lelong number

$$ \begin{align*} \mathscr{L}(T,0)\approx\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{S}}a_0(\alpha)\, d\mu(\alpha)\approx\|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2} \end{align*} $$

is strictly positive.

5 Positive irrational case $\unicode{x3bb} \notin \mathbb {Q}$ , $\unicode{x3bb} \in (0,1)$

Now $\{z=0\}$ and $\{w=0\}$ are the only two separatrices in $\mathbb {D}^2$ . For each fixed $\alpha \in \mathbb {C}^*$ , the map $\psi _\alpha (\zeta )=(e^{i \zeta },\alpha e^{i \unicode{x3bb} \zeta })$ is injective since $\unicode{x3bb} \notin \mathbb {Q}$ .

5.1 Periodic currents, still a Fourier series

Periodic currents behave similarly to currents in the rational case $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {Q}$ . Suppose $H_\alpha $ is periodic, that is, there is some $b\in \mathbb {Z}_{\geqslant 1}$ such that $H_\alpha (u+iv)=H_\alpha (u+2\pi b+iv)$ for any $u+iv\in \mathbb {H}$ . Periodic harmonic functions are characterized as in (5) of Lemma 4.1.

According to Lemma 3.3, the mass is

$$ \begin{align*} \|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}=\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{v>0}\int_{u=2k_0\pi}^{2k_0\pi+2\pi}H_\alpha(u+iv)\|\psi_\alpha'\|^2\, du\wedge dv \,d\mu(\alpha), \end{align*} $$

for any $k_0\in \mathbb {Z}$ , in particular for $k_0=0,1,\ldots ,b-1$ . Thus, we may calculate

$$ \begin{align*} b\|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}&=\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{v>0}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi b}H_\alpha(u+iv)\|\psi_\alpha'\|^2 \,du\wedge dv \,d\mu(\alpha)\\ \|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}&=\frac{1}{b}\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{v>0}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi b}H_\alpha(u+iv)\|\psi_\alpha'\|^2 \,du\wedge dv\, d\mu(\alpha),\\ &=\frac{1}{b}\bigg\{\int_{|\alpha|<1}\int_{v>0}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi b}H_\alpha(u+iv) 2(e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,du\wedge dv \,d\mu(\alpha)\\ &\quad +\int_{|\alpha|\geqslant1}\int_{v>0}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi b}H_\alpha(u+iv) 2(|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,du\wedge dv \,d\mu(\alpha)\bigg\},\\ &=\frac{2\pi b}{b}\bigg\{\int_{|\alpha|<1}\int_{v>0}(a_0(\alpha)+b_0(\alpha) v) 2(e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,dv \,d\mu(\alpha)\\ & \quad+\int_{|\alpha|\geqslant1}\int_{v>0}(a_0(\alpha)+b_0(\alpha) v) 2(|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,dv\, d\mu(\alpha)\bigg\},\\ &=2\pi \bigg\{\int_{|\alpha|<1}a_0(\alpha) (1+|\alpha|^2 \unicode{x3bb})\, d\mu(\alpha)+\int_{|\alpha|\geqslant1}a_0(\alpha) (|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}+\unicode{x3bb})\, d\mu(\alpha) \nonumber \\&\quad+\int_{|\alpha|<1}b_0(\alpha) \bigg(\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{2}|\alpha|^2\bigg)\, d\mu(\alpha)+\int_{|\alpha|\geqslant1}b_0(\alpha) \bigg(\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{2}|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}\bigg) \,d\mu(\alpha)\bigg\}\\ &\approx \int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}a_0(\alpha)\, d\mu(\alpha)+\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}b_0(\alpha) \,d\mu(\alpha), \end{align*} $$

which is the same expression as in the case $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {Q}_{>0}$ .

Next, the Lelong number is calculated as

$$ \begin{align*} ~&\mathscr{L}(T,0)\\[3pt]&\quad=\lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}\frac{1}{r^2}\|T\|_{r\mathbb{D}^2}\\[3pt] &\quad=\lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}\frac{1}{r^2}2\pi \bigg\{\int_{|\alpha|<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}\int_{v>-\log r}(a_0(\alpha)+b_0(\alpha)v) 2 (e^{-2v}\\[3pt] &\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,dv\, d\mu(\alpha)\\[3pt] & \qquad+ \int_{r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}\leqslant |\alpha|<1}\int_{v>({\log|\alpha|-\log r}/{\unicode{x3bb}})}(a_0(\alpha)+b_0(\alpha)v) 2 (e^{-2v}\\[3pt] &\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,dv\, d\mu(\alpha)\bigg\}\\[3pt] & \qquad+ \int_{|\alpha|\geqslant 1}\int_{v>{-\log r}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}(a_0(\alpha)+b_0(\alpha)v) 2 (|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,dv\, d\mu(\alpha)\bigg\}\\[3pt] &\quad=\lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}2\pi \bigg\{\int_{|\alpha|<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}a_0(\alpha) (1+\unicode{x3bb} |\alpha|^2 r^{2\unicode{x3bb}-2})\, d\mu(\alpha)\\[3pt] & \qquad +\int_{|\alpha|\geqslant r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}a_0(\alpha) (|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}-2}+\unicode{x3bb})\, d\mu(\alpha)\\[3pt] & \qquad +\int_{|\alpha|< r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}b_0(\alpha) \bigg(\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{2}|\alpha|^2 r^{2\unicode{x3bb}-2}-\log r-\unicode{x3bb} |\alpha|^2 r^{2\unicode{x3bb}-2} \log r\bigg)\, d\mu(\alpha)\\[3pt] & \qquad +\int_{r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}\leqslant |\alpha|<1}b_0(\alpha) \bigg(\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{2}|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}-2}-\log r-\unicode{x3bb}^{-1} |\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} r^{2\unicode{x3bb}-2}\log r\\[3pt] & \qquad +\log |\alpha|+\unicode{x3bb}^{-1} |\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} \log|\alpha| r^{2\unicode{x3bb}-2}\bigg)\, d\mu(\alpha)\\[3pt] & \qquad +\int_{|\alpha|\geqslant 1}b_0(\alpha) \bigg(\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{2}|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}-2}-\log r-\unicode{x3bb}^{-1} |\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} r^{2\unicode{x3bb}-2}\log r\bigg)\, d\mu(\alpha)\bigg\}, \end{align*} $$

exactly the same expression as in the positive rational case with $b=1$ . Using the same argument as in Lemma 4.2, one may assume that $b_0(\alpha )=0$ for $\mu $ -almost all $\alpha \in \mathbb {C}^*$ . One concludes that

$$ \begin{align*} \mathscr{L}(T,0)\approx\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}a_0(\alpha)\, d\mu(\alpha)\approx\|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}. \end{align*} $$

The Lelong number is strictly positive, the same as in the case $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {Q}\cup (0,1)$ .

5.2 Non-periodic current

For periodic currents, one takes an average among b expressions (4) in the previous section. For non-periodic currents, there is no canonical way of normalization. The key technique is to calculate expressions (4) for all $k_0\in \mathbb {Z}$ .

The Lelong number is expressed as

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} \mathscr{L}(T,0)&=\lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}\frac{1}{r^2}\bigg\{\int_{|\alpha|<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}\int_{v>-\log r}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi}H_{\alpha}(u+iv)\|\psi_\alpha'\|^2du \,dv \,d\mu(\alpha)\\ & \quad +\int_{r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}\leqslant|\alpha|<1}\int_{v>({\log|\alpha|-\log r})/{\unicode{x3bb}}}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi}H_{\alpha}(u+iv)\|\psi_\alpha'\|^2du \,dv \,d\mu(\alpha)\\ & \quad +\int_{|\alpha|\geqslant1}\int_{v>{-\log r}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi}H_{\alpha}(u+iv)\|\psi_\alpha'\|^2du \,dv \,d\mu(\alpha)\bigg\} \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

Recall the Poisson integral formula after multiplying by a non-zero constant:

$$ \begin{align*} H_\alpha(u+iv)=\frac{1}{\pi} \int_{y\in\mathbb{R}}H_\alpha(y) \frac{v} {v^2+(y-u)^2} dy+{C}_\alpha v. \end{align*} $$

Using the same argument as in Lemma 4.2, one may assume ${C}_\alpha =0$ for all $\alpha \in \mathbb {C}^*$ .

Lemma 5.1. For any $v\geqslant {1}/{\unicode{x3bb} }>1$ and for any $u\in \mathbb {R}$ ,

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} \frac{{\partial}/{\partial v}(-\frac12({v}/({v^2+(u-y)^2})e^{-2v}))}{{v}/({v^2+(u-y)^2})e^{-2v}}\in\bigg(\frac{1}{2},2\bigg), \\ \frac{{\partial}/{\partial v}(-({1}/{2\unicode{x3bb}})({v}/({v^2+(u-y)^2}))e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v})}{{v}/({v^2+(u-y)^2})e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}}\in\bigg(\frac{1}{2},2\bigg). \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

Proof. This can be calculated directly:

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} \frac{\partial}{\partial v}\bigg(-\frac{1}{2}\frac{v}{v^2+(u-y)^2}e^{-2v}\bigg)&=\bigg(\frac{v}{v^2+(u-y)^2}+\bigg(-\frac{1}{2}\bigg)\frac{1}{v^2+(u-y)^2}\\ & \quad +\bigg(-\frac{1}{2}\bigg)\frac{v(-2v)}{(v^2+(u-y)^2)^2}\bigg) e^{-2v}\\ \frac{{\partial}/{\partial v}(-\frac12({v}/({v^2+(u-y)^2}))e^{-2v})}{{v}/({v^2+(u-y)^2})e^{-2v}}&=1+\bigg(-\frac{1}{2}\frac{1}{v}\bigg)+\frac{v}{v^2+(u-y)^2}\\ &\in\bigg(1-\frac{1}{2v},1+\frac{1}{v}\bigg)\subseteq\bigg(\frac{1}{2},2\bigg) \quad (v>1),\\ \frac{\partial}{\partial v}\bigg (-\frac{1}{2\unicode{x3bb}}\frac{v}{v^2+(u-y)^2}e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}\bigg)&=\bigg(\frac{v}{v^2+(u-y)^2}+\bigg(-\frac{1}{2\unicode{x3bb}}\bigg)\frac{1}{v^2+(u-y)^2}\\ & \quad +\bigg(-\frac{1}{2\unicode{x3bb}}\bigg)\frac{v(-2v)}{(v^2+(u-y)^2)^2}\bigg) e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}\\ \frac{{\partial}/{\partial v}(-({1}/{2\unicode{x3bb}})({v}/({v^2+(u-y)^2}))e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v})}{{v}/({v^2+(u-y)^2})e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}}&=1+\bigg(-\frac{1}{2\unicode{x3bb}}\frac{1}{v}\bigg)+\frac{1}{\unicode{x3bb}}\frac{v}{v^2+(u-y)^2}\\ &\in\bigg(1-\frac{1}{2\unicode{x3bb} v},1+\frac{1}{\unicode{x3bb} v}\bigg)\subseteq\bigg(\frac{1}{2},2\bigg) \!\quad \!\bigg(v\geqslant\frac{1}{\unicode{x3bb}}\bigg). \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

Corollary 5.2. For any r such that $0<r\leqslant e^{-{1}/{\unicode{x3bb} }}$ ,

$$ \begin{align*} &\frac{1}{r^2}\int_{v>-\log r}H_\alpha(u+iv)\|\psi_\alpha'\|^2 dv\approx H_\alpha(u+(-\log r) i) \quad(0<|\alpha|<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}),\\ &\frac{1}{r^2}\int_{v>({\log|\alpha|-\log r})/{\unicode{x3bb}}}H_\alpha(u+iv)\|\psi_\alpha'\|^2 dv\\ &\quad\approx H_\alpha\bigg(u+\bigg(\frac{\log|\alpha|-\log r}{\unicode{x3bb}}\bigg) i\bigg) \quad (r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}\leqslant|\alpha|<1),\\ &\frac{1}{r^2}\int_{v>({\log|\alpha|-\log r})/{\unicode{x3bb}}}H_\alpha(u+iv)\|\psi_\alpha'\|^2 dv\approx H_\alpha\bigg(u+\bigg(\frac{-\log r}{\unicode{x3bb}}\bigg) i\bigg) \quad (|\alpha|\geqslant 1). \end{align*} $$

Figure 14 explains Corollary 5.2. We remark that Corollary 5.2 is true for $r\in (0,1)$ after a dilation $(z,w)\mapsto (e^{{1}/{2\unicode{x3bb} }}z,e^{{1}/{2\unicode{x3bb} }}w)$ .

Figure 14 ${1}/{r^2}$ (The integration on $v>-\log r$ ) $\approx $ (The value at $v=-\log r$ ).

Proof. The assumption $0<r\leqslant e^{-{1}/{\unicode{x3bb} }}$ implies $-\log r\geqslant {1}/{\unicode{x3bb} }$ . Hence, for $v\geqslant -\log r\geqslant {1}/{\unicode{x3bb} }$ , Lemma 5.1 holds.

First, when $0<|\alpha |\leqslant r^{1-\unicode{x3bb} }$ ,

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} &\int_{v>-\log r}H_\alpha(u+iv)\|\psi_\alpha'\|^2dv\\ &\quad=\frac{1}{\pi}\int_{v>-\log r}\int_{y\in\mathbb{R}}H_\alpha(y)\frac{v}{v^2+(u-y)^2}2 (e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v})\, dy\, dv\\ &\quad\approx \frac{1}{\pi}\int_{y\in\mathbb{R}}H_\alpha(y)\bigg\{\int_{v>-\log r}\frac{\partial}{\partial v}\bigg(\frac{v}{v^2+(u-y)^2}(-e^{-2v}-\unicode{x3bb} |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v})\bigg)\, dv\bigg\}\, dy\\ &\quad=\frac{1}{\pi}\int_{y\in\mathbb{R}}H_\alpha(y)\frac{-\log r}{(-\log r)^2+(u-y)^2}(r^2+\unicode{x3bb} |\alpha|^2 r^{2\unicode{x3bb}})\, dy\\ &\quad=H_\alpha(u+(-\log r) i)(r^2+\unicode{x3bb} |\alpha|^2 r^{2\unicode{x3bb}})\\ &\quad\approx r^2 H_\alpha(u+(-\log r) i). \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

For the same reason, when $r^{1-\unicode{x3bb} }\leqslant |\alpha |<1$ , which implies $({\log |\alpha |-\log r})/{\unicode{x3bb} }\geqslant -\log r\geqslant {1}/{\unicode{x3bb} }$ ,

$$ \begin{align*} &\int_{v>({\log|\alpha|-\log r})/{\unicode{x3bb}}}H_\alpha(u+iv)\|\psi_\alpha'\|^2\, dv\\ &\quad\approx H_\alpha\bigg(u+\bigg(\frac{\log|\alpha|-\log r}{\unicode{x3bb}}\bigg) i\bigg) (|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}+\unicode{x3bb} r^2)\\ &\quad\approx r^2 H_\alpha\bigg(u+\bigg(\frac{\log|\alpha|-\log r}{\unicode{x3bb}}\bigg) i\bigg). \end{align*} $$

Finally, when $|\alpha |\geqslant 1$ one has ${-\log r}/{\unicode{x3bb} }\geqslant -\log r\geqslant {1}/{\unicode{x3bb} }$ and

$$ \begin{align*} \int_{v>{-\log r}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}H_\alpha(u+iv)\|\psi_\alpha'\|^2dv &\approx H_\alpha\bigg(u+\bigg(\frac{-\log r}{\unicode{x3bb}}\bigg) i\bigg) (|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}} r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}+\unicode{x3bb} r^2)\\ &\approx r^2 H_\alpha\bigg(u+\bigg(\frac{-\log r}{\unicode{x3bb}}\bigg) i\bigg).\\[-3.9pc] \end{align*} $$

Thus,

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} \mathscr{L}(T,0)&\approx \lim\limits_{r\rightarrow0+}\bigg\{ \int_{|\alpha|<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi}H_\alpha(u+(-\log r) i) \,du \,d\mu(\alpha)\\ & \quad +\int_{r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}\leqslant|\alpha|<1}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi}H_\alpha\bigg(u+\bigg(\frac{\log|\alpha|-\log r}{\unicode{x3bb}}\bigg) i\bigg) \,du \,d\mu(\alpha)\\ & \quad +\int_{|\alpha|\geqslant 1}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi}H_\alpha\bigg(u+\bigg(\frac{-\log r}{\unicode{x3bb}}\bigg) i\bigg) \,du \,d\mu(\alpha)\bigg\}, \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

by inequalities (6) and (7) in the previous subsection. All terms are positive, so the order of taking the limit and integration can change:

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} \mathscr{L}(T,0)&\approx\lim\limits_{v\rightarrow+\infty}\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi}H_\alpha(u+iv) \,du \,d\mu(\alpha)\\ &=\lim\limits_{k\rightarrow+\infty}\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi}\int_{y\in\mathbb{R}}H_\alpha(y)\frac{2k\pi}{(2k\pi)^2+(u-y)^2} \,dy\, du\, d\mu(\alpha). \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

Fix some $k\in \mathbb {Z}$ , $k\geqslant 2$ . Define intervals $I_N$ for all $N\in \mathbb {Z}$ as follows:

$$ \begin{align*} I_0&=[-2k\pi+2\pi,2k\pi),\\ I_N&= \left\{ \begin{aligned} &[2k N\pi,2k(N+1)\pi) & (N>0),\\ &[2k(N-1)\pi +2\pi,2k N\pi+2\pi) & (N<0). \end{aligned} \right. \end{align*} $$

Thus, $\mathbb {R}=\bigcup \nolimits _{N\in \mathbb {Z}}I_N$ is a disjoint union.

Lemma 5.3. For any $u\in (0,2\pi )$ , one has

$$ \begin{align*} \frac{2k\pi}{(2k\pi)^2+(u-y)^2}\geqslant \frac{1}{1+(N+1)^2}\frac{1}{2k\pi} \quad(y\in I_N). \end{align*} $$

Proof. Elementary.

Thus,

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} \mathscr{L}(T,0)&\approx\lim\limits_{k\rightarrow+\infty}\sum\limits_{N\in\mathbb{Z}}\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi}\int_{y\in I_N}H_\alpha(y)\frac{2k\pi}{(2k\pi)^2+(u-y)^2} \,dy\, du\, d\mu(\alpha)\\ &\geqslant\lim\limits_{k\rightarrow+\infty}\sum\limits_{N\in\mathbb{Z}}\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{y\in I_N}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi}H_\alpha(y)\frac{1}{1+(N+1)^2}\frac{1}{2k\pi} \,du\, dy\, d\mu(\alpha)\\ &=\lim\limits_{k\rightarrow+\infty}\sum\limits_{N\in\mathbb{Z}}\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{y\in I_N}H_\alpha(y)\frac{1}{1+(N+1)^2}\frac{1}{k} \,dy \,d\mu(\alpha). \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

By Lemma 3.3 and Corollary 5.2 after a dilation,

$$ \begin{align*} \|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}&=\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{v>0}\int_{u=2k_0\pi}^{2k_0\pi+2\pi}H_\alpha(u+iv) \|\psi_\alpha'\|^2 \,du\wedge dv \,d\mu(\alpha)\quad{(k_0\in\mathbb{Z})}\\ &\approx\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{y=2k_0\pi}^{2k_0\pi+2\pi}H_\alpha(y) \,dy\, d\mu(\alpha) \end{align*} $$

is the integral of y on any interval of length $2\pi $ . Since $I_0$ has length $(2k-1) 2\pi $ and $I_N$ has length $2k\pi $ for $N\neq 0$ ,

$$ \begin{align*} \int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{y\in I_0}H_\alpha(y) \,dy\, d\mu(\alpha)&\approx(2k-1) \|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}\\ &\geqslant k \|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2},\\ \int_{\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^*}\int_{y\in I_N}H_\alpha(y) \,dy\, d\mu(\alpha)&\approx k \|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2} \quad(N\neq 0). \end{align*} $$

Thus,

$$ \begin{align*} \mathscr{L}(T,0)\gtrsim\lim\limits_{k\rightarrow+\infty}\sum\limits_{N\in\mathbb{Z}}\frac{1}{1+(N+1)^2} \|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}\approx \|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2} \end{align*} $$

is non-zero.

6 Periodic currents in the negative case $\unicode{x3bb} <0$

Now we treat the case $\unicode{x3bb} <0$ . We assume the currents are periodic. Recall that when $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {Q}$ all directed currents are periodic. So such currents include all currents for $\unicode{x3bb} \in \mathbb {Q}_{<0}$ .

Recall the formulas of the mass and of the Lelong number obtained in §3.3, for each $k_0\in \mathbb {Z}$ fixed:

$$ \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} \|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}&=\int_{0<|\alpha|<1}\int_{v=0}^{{\log|\alpha|}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}\int_{u=2 k_0 \pi}^{2 k_0 \pi+2 \pi}\\ & \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ H_\alpha(u+iv) 2 (e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,du \,dv \,d\mu(\alpha),\\ \mathscr{L}(T,0)&=\lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}\frac{1}{r^2}\|T\|_{r\mathbb{D}^2}\\ &=\lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}\frac{1}{r^2}\int_{0<|\alpha|<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}\int_{v=-\log r}^{({\log|\alpha|-\log r})/{\unicode{x3bb}}}\int_{u=2 k_0 \pi}^{2 k_0 \pi+2 \pi}\\ & \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ H_\alpha(u+iv) 2 (e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,du \,dv \,d\mu(\alpha). \end{aligned} \end{align*} $$

We now prove Theorem 1.5. Suppose that there exists some $b\in \mathbb {Z}_{\leqslant 1}$ such that $H_{\alpha }(u+iv)=H_{\alpha }(u+2\pi b+iv)$ for all $\alpha \in \mathbb {D}^*$ and all $(u,v)$ in a neighbourhood of the strip $\{(u+iv)\in \mathbb {C}~|~u\in \mathbb {R},v\in [0,{\log |\alpha |}/{\unicode{x3bb} }]\}$ . One proves the following result.

Lemma 6.1. Let $F(u,v)$ be a positive harmonic function on a neighbourhood of the horizontal strip $\{(u+iv)\in \mathbb {C}~|~u\in \mathbb {R},v\in [0,C]\}$ for some $C>0$ . Suppose $F(u,v)=F(u+2\pi b,v)$ on this strip. Then

$$ \begin{align*} F(u,v)=\sum\limits_{k\in\mathbb{Z},k\neq 0}\bigg(a_k e^{{kv}/{b}}\cos\bigg(\frac{ku}{b}\bigg)+b_k e^{{kv}/{b}}\sin\bigg(\frac{ku}{b}\bigg)\bigg)+a_0 (1-C^{-1} v)+b_0 v, \end{align*} $$

for some $a_k,b_k\in \mathbb {R}$ with $a_0\geqslant 0$ and $b_0\geqslant 0$ .

Proof. The proof is almost the same as that of Lemma 4.1. Using Fourier series and calculating the Laplacian, one concludes that

$$ \begin{align*} F(u,v)=\sum\limits_{k\in\mathbb{Z},k\neq 0}\bigg(a_k e^{{kv}/{b}}\cos\bigg(\frac{ku}{b}\bigg)+b_k e^{{kv}/{b}}\sin\bigg(\frac{ku}{b}\bigg)\bigg)+p+q v, \end{align*} $$

for some $a_k,b_k,p,q\in \mathbb {R}$ . For any $v\in [0,C]$ , $F(u,v)\geqslant 0$ implies

$$ \begin{align*} \int_{u=0}^{2\pi b}F(u,v) du=2\pi b (p+q v)\geqslant0. \end{align*} $$

Thus, $p\geqslant 0$ and $q\geqslant -C^{-1} p$ . One may write $p+q v=p (1-C^{-1} v)+(q+C^{-1} p) v$ with $p=:a_0\geqslant 0$ and $q+C^{-1} p=:b_0\geqslant 0$ .

For periodic currents one may assume

(8) $$ \begin{align} H_\alpha(u+iv)&=\sum\limits_{k\in\mathbb{Z},k\neq 0}\bigg(a_k(\alpha) e^{{kv}/{b}}\cos\bigg(\frac{ku}{b}\bigg)+b_k(\alpha) e^{{kv}/{b}}\sin\bigg(\frac{ku}{b}\bigg)\bigg)\nonumber\\ &\quad +a_0(\alpha) \bigg(1-\frac{\unicode{x3bb}}{\log|\alpha|} v\bigg)+b_0(\alpha) v, \end{align} $$

for some $a_k(\alpha ),b_k(\alpha )\in \mathbb {R}$ with $a_0(\alpha )\geqslant 0$ and $b_0(\alpha )\geqslant 0$ . According to Lemma 3.3, for any $k_0\in \mathbb {Z}$ , use the Jacobian (3):

$$ \begin{align*} \|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}=\int_{0<|\alpha|<1}\!\int_{v=0}^{{\log|\alpha|}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}\!\int_{u=2k_0\pi}^{2k_0\pi+2\pi}\!H_\alpha(u+iv) 2 (e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,du \,dv \,d\mu(\alpha). \end{align*} $$

Next, using $0=\int _0^{2\pi b}\cos ({ku}/{b})du$ for $k\neq 0$ and the same for $\sin ({ku}/{b})$ , let us calculate the average among $k_0=0,1,\ldots ,b-1$ for the mass

$$ \begin{align*} \|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}&=\frac{1}{b}\int_{0<|\alpha|<1}\int_{v=0}^{{\log|\alpha|}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi b}H_\alpha(u+iv) 2 (e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,du \,dv \,d\mu(\alpha)\\ &=\frac{2\pi b}{b}\int_{0<|\alpha|<1}\int_{v=0}^{{\log|\alpha|}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}\\&\qquad\qquad\quad\bigg(a_0(\alpha) \bigg(1-\dfrac{\unicode{x3bb}}{\log|\alpha|} v\bigg)+b_0(\alpha) v\bigg) 2 (e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,dv\, d\mu(\alpha), \end{align*} $$

and for the Lelong number

$$ \begin{align*} &\mathscr{L}(T,0)\\&\quad=\lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}\frac{1}{r^2}\|T\|_{r\mathbb{D}^2}\\ &\quad=\lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}\frac{1}{b r^2}\int_{0<|\alpha|<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}\int_{v=-\log r}^{({\log|\alpha|-\log r})/{\unicode{x3bb}}}\int_{u=0}^{2\pi b}\\&\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ H_\alpha(u+iv) 2 (e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,du \,dv \,d\mu(\alpha)\\ &\quad=\lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}\frac{2\pi b}{b r^2}\int_{0<|\alpha|<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}\int_{v=-\log r}^{({\log|\alpha|-\log r})/{\unicode{x3bb}}}\\ & \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \bigg(a_0(\alpha) \bigg(1-\frac{\unicode{x3bb}}{\log|\alpha|} v\bigg)+b_0(\alpha) v\bigg) 2 (e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,dv\, d\mu(\alpha). \end{align*} $$

We introduce the two functions of $r\in (0,1]$ given by elementary integrals,

$$ \begin{align*} I_a(r)&:=\frac{1}{r^2}\int_{v=-\log r}^{({\log|\alpha|-\log r})/{\unicode{x3bb}}}2 \bigg(1-\frac{\unicode{x3bb}}{\log|\alpha|} v\bigg) (e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,dv\\ & =1+\unicode{x3bb} |\alpha|^2 r^{2 \unicode{x3bb} -2}+\frac{1}{2\log|\alpha|}(-2|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}} } r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb} }-2} \log (r)+\unicode{x3bb} |\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}} } r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb} }-2}\\ & \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ +2 \unicode{x3bb} ^2 |\alpha|^2 r^{2 \unicode{x3bb} -2} \log (r)-\unicode{x3bb} |\alpha|^2 r^{2 \unicode{x3bb} -2}),\\ I_b(r)&:=\frac{1}{r^2}\int_{v=-\log r}^{({\log|\alpha|-\log r})/{\unicode{x3bb}}}2 v (e^{-2v}+\unicode{x3bb}^2 |\alpha|^2 e^{-2\unicode{x3bb} v}) \,dv\\ &=\frac{1}{2} \bigg(-\frac{|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}} } r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb} }-2} (\unicode{x3bb}+2 \log |\alpha| -2 \log (r))}{\unicode{x3bb} }\\& \ \qquad+|\alpha|^2 r^{2 \unicode{x3bb} -2} (1-2 \unicode{x3bb} \log (r))-2 \log |\alpha|\bigg), \end{align*} $$

to describe the contributions from the $a_0(\alpha )$ part and from the $b_0(\alpha )$ part. Here we recall that every positive linear function of v on is a sum of and $b_0(\alpha)\,v$ with $a_0(\alpha),b_0(\alpha)\geqslant 0$ . The two summands correspond to the dotted line and the dashed line in Figure 15.

Figure 15 A positive function = a dotted one (gives $I_a(r)$ ) + a dashed one ( $I_b(r)$ ).

Then we can express

$$ \begin{align*} \|T\|_{\mathbb{D}^2}&=2 \pi \int_{0<|\alpha|<1}(a_0(\alpha) I_a(1)+b_0(\alpha) I_b(1))\, d\mu(\alpha),\\ \mathscr{L}(T,0)&=2 \pi \lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}\int_{0<|\alpha|<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}(a_0(\alpha) I_a(r)+b_0(\alpha) I_b(r))\, d\mu(\alpha). \end{align*} $$

Observe that

$$ \begin{align*} I_a(1)&=1+\unicode{x3bb} |\alpha|^2 +\frac{\unicode{x3bb} (|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}} }-|\alpha|^2)}{2 \log |\alpha|},\\ I_b(1)&=\frac{1}{2} \bigg(-\frac{|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}} } (\unicode{x3bb}+2 \log|\alpha| )}{\unicode{x3bb} }+|\alpha|^2-2 \log|\alpha|\bigg). \end{align*} $$

Fix any $\alpha \in \mathbb {D}^*$ ; by definition $r^2I_a(r)$ and $r^2I_b(r)$ are increasing for $r\in (0,1]$ , since the interval of integration $(-\log r,({\log |\alpha |-\log r})/{\unicode{x3bb} })$ is expanding and the function integrated is positive. In particular, for any $r\in (0,1]$ ,

$$ \begin{align*} I_a(r)\leqslant r^{-2} I_a(1), \quad I_b(r)\leqslant r^{-2} I_b(1). \end{align*} $$

It is more subtle to talk about monotonicity of $I_a(r)$ and $I_b(r)$ . We expect upper bounds of $I_a(r)/I_a(1)$ and $I_b(r)/I_b(1)$ for $r\in (0,1]$ which are independent of $\alpha $ , that is, depend only on $\unicode{x3bb} $ .

Lemma 6.2. For any $r\in (0,1)$ and any $\alpha \in \mathbb {C}$ with $0<|\alpha |<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb} }<1$ , one has

$$ \begin{align*} 0<I_a(r)<I_a(1). \end{align*} $$

Proof. Differentiation gives

$$ \begin{align*} \frac{d}{dr}I_a(r)&=\underbrace{\frac{|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}} }}{\unicode{x3bb} r^3 \log |\alpha|}}_{>0}\!\Big(\unicode{x3bb} ^2 (|\alpha|^{2+{2}/{\unicode{x3bb} }} r^{2 \unicode{x3bb} }-r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}} })-2 (1-\unicode{x3bb}) (\unicode{x3bb} ^3 |\alpha|^{2+{2}/{\unicode{x3bb} }} r^{2 \unicode{x3bb} }+r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}} })\log (r) \\[-2pt] & \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ -2 (1-\unicode{x3bb}) \unicode{x3bb} ^2 |\alpha|^{2+{2}/{\unicode{x3bb} }} r^{2 \unicode{x3bb} }\log|\alpha| \Big). \end{align*} $$

It suffices to show that $({d}/{dr})I_a(r)>0$ when $r\in (0,1)$ and $0<|\alpha |<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb} }$ .

Introduce the new variable $t:={|\alpha |}/{r^{1-\unicode{x3bb} }}\in (0,1)$ . In the big parentheses, replace $|\alpha |$ by $t r^{1-\unicode{x3bb} }$ and $\log |\alpha |$ by $\log (t)+(1-\unicode{x3bb} )\log (r)$ :

$$ \begin{align*} \frac{d}{dr}I_a(r)&=\underbrace{\frac{|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}} } r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}}{\unicode{x3bb} r^3 \log |\alpha|}}_{>0} ( \unicode{x3bb}^2(t^{2+{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}-1) -2 (1-\unicode{x3bb}) (t^{2+{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}+1)\log (r)\\[-2pt] & \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \underbrace{-2 (1-\unicode{x3bb}) \unicode{x3bb}^2 t^{2+{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}\log (t)}_{>0} )\\ &>\frac{|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}} } r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}}{\unicode{x3bb} r^3 \log |\alpha|} ( \unicode{x3bb}^2 \underbrace{(t^{2+{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}-1)}_{\geqslant0} \underbrace{-2 (1-\unicode{x3bb}) (t^{2+{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}+1)\log (r)}_{>0})>0, \end{align*} $$

since $\unicode{x3bb} \in [-1,0)$ implies $t^{2+{2}/{\unicode{x3bb} }}\geqslant 1$ .

It is not true that $I_b(r)$ is increasing on $(0,1]$ , but on a smaller half-neighbourhood of $0$ , independent of $\alpha $ , it is increasing. This suffices to give an upper bound for $I_b(r)/I_b(1)$ .

Lemma 6.3. For any $r\in (0,e^{{1}/{2 \unicode{x3bb} (1-\unicode{x3bb} )}})$ and any $\alpha \in \mathbb {C}$ with $0<|\alpha |<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb} }<1$ , one has

$$ \begin{align*} 0<I_b(r)<I_b(e^{{1}/{2\unicode{x3bb}(1-\unicode{x3bb})}})\leqslant e^{{1}/({-\unicode{x3bb} (1-\unicode{x3bb})})} I_b(1). \end{align*} $$

Proof. Differentiation gives

$$ \begin{align*} \frac{d}{dr}I_b(r)&=\underbrace{\frac{|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}} }}{\unicode{x3bb} ^2 r^3}}_{>0} (-\unicode{x3bb} ^2 (|\alpha|^{2+{2}/{\unicode{x3bb} }} r^{2 \unicode{x3bb} }-r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}) +2 (1-\unicode{x3bb}) (\unicode{x3bb} ^3 |\alpha|^{2+{2}/{\unicode{x3bb} }} r^{2 \unicode{x3bb} }+r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}} }) \log (r)\\ & \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ -2 (1-\unicode{x3bb}) r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}} } \log |\alpha|). \end{align*} $$

It suffices to show that ${d}/{dr}I_b(r)>0$ when $0<r<e^{{1}/{2 \unicode{x3bb} (1-\unicode{x3bb} )}}$ and $0<|\alpha |<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb} }$ .

Again, introduce the variable $t:={|\alpha |}/{r^{1-\unicode{x3bb} }}\in (0,1)$ and replace $\alpha $ and $\log |\alpha |$ in the parentheses:

$$ \begin{align*} \frac{d}{dr}I_b(r)&=\underbrace{\frac{|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}} } r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}}{\unicode{x3bb}^2 r^3}}_{>0} ( -\unicode{x3bb}^2 (t^{2+{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}-1)+2 \unicode{x3bb} (1-\unicode{x3bb}) (\unicode{x3bb}^2 t^{2+{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}+1) \log(r) \\ & \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \underbrace{-2 (1-\unicode{x3bb} ) \log(t) }_{>0})\\ &>\frac{|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}} } r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}}{\unicode{x3bb}^2 r^3} ( -\unicode{x3bb}^2 (t^{2+{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}-1)+\underbrace{2 \unicode{x3bb} (1-\unicode{x3bb}) (\unicode{x3bb}^2 t^{2+{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}+1)}_{<0} \underbrace{\log(r)}_{<{1}/({2\unicode{x3bb}(1-\unicode{x3bb})})<0})\\ &>\frac{|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}} } r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}}{\unicode{x3bb}^2 r^3} ( -\unicode{x3bb}^2 (t^{2+{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}-1)+\unicode{x3bb}^2 t^{2+{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}+1)=\frac{|\alpha|^{-{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}} } r^{{2}/{\unicode{x3bb}}}}{\unicode{x3bb}^2 r^3} ( \unicode{x3bb}^2 +1)>0.\end{align*} $$

End of proof of Theorem 1.5.

From the foregoing, the Lelong number is zero:

$$ \begin{align*} \mathscr{L}(T,0)&=2 \pi \lim\limits_{r<e^{{1}/{2\unicode{x3bb}(1-\unicode{x3bb})}},r\rightarrow 0+}\int_{0<|\alpha|<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}(a_0(\alpha) I_a(r)+b_0(\alpha) I_b(r))\, d\mu(\alpha)\\ &\leqslant2 \pi \lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}\int_{0<|\alpha|<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}(a_0(\alpha) I_a(1)+b_0(\alpha) e^{{1}/({-2 \unicode{x3bb} (1-\unicode{x3bb})})} I_b(1))\, d\mu(\alpha)\\ &\approx2 \pi \lim\limits_{r\rightarrow 0+}\int_{0<|\alpha|<r^{1-\unicode{x3bb}}}(a_0(\alpha) I_a(1)+b_0(\alpha) I_b(1))\, d\mu(\alpha)=0, \end{align*} $$

since $\|T\|_{\mathbb {D}^2}=2 \pi \int _{0<|\alpha |<1}(a_0(\alpha ) I_a(1)+b_0(\alpha ) I_b(1))\, d\mu (\alpha )$ is finite.

Acknowledgements

The author thanks Joël Merker and an anonymous referee for valuable suggestions which help to improve the presentation.

Footnotes

1 The name CR has its own history and interest in complex geometry, other than to say that CR stands both for Cauchy–Riemann and for Complex–Real.

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Figure 1 The region of $(|\alpha |,v)$ for $P_\alpha $.

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Figure 2 The region of $(|\alpha |,v)$ for $P_\alpha ^{(r)}$.

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Figure 3 The region of $(|\alpha |,v)$ for $P_\alpha $.

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Figure 4 The region of $(|\alpha |,v)$ for $P_\alpha ^{(r)}$.

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Figure 5 Case $|\alpha |<1$.

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Figure 6 Case $|\alpha |\geqslant 1$.

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Figure 7 A closed curve on a torus.

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Figure 8 Two loops.

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Figure 9 Twenty loops.

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Figure 10 Two components of $L_{1,1}\cup U_{\epsilon}$.

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Figure 11 Domain U in coordinates $(z,w)$.

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Figure 12 Domain U in coordinates $(u,v)$.

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Figure 13 Case $\unicode{x3bb} <0$.

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Figure 14 ${1}/{r^2}$ (The integration on $v>-\log r$) $\approx $ (The value at $v=-\log r$).

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Figure 15 A positive function = a dotted one (gives $I_a(r)$) + a dashed one ($I_b(r)$).