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On the nonextendability of germs of holomorphic functions

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We construct explicit supporting manifolds and local holomorphic peak functions as obstructions to the extendability of holomorphic functions on a class of domains not necessarily pseudoconvex in CN, N >2.

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Siano, A. On the nonextendability of germs of holomorphic functions. J Geom Anal 17, 547–557 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02922096

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