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Painlevé's problem and the semiadditivity of analytic capacity

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Supported by a Marie Curie Fellowship of the European Community program Human Potential under contract HPMFCT-2000-00519. Also partially supported by grants DGICYT BFM2000-0361 (Spain) and 2001-SGR-00431 (Generalitat de Catalunya).

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Tolsa, X. Painlevé's problem and the semiadditivity of analytic capacity. Acta Math. 190, 105–149 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02393237

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