The Lempert function for a
set of poles in a domain of ℂn at a point z is obtained by taking a certain
infimum over all analytic disks going through the poles and the point z; it
majorizes the corresponding multipole pluricomplex Green function. Coman
proved that both coincide in the case of sets of two poles in the unit ball. We
give an example of a set of three poles in the unit ball where this equality
fails.
Keywords
pluricomplex Green function, Lempert function, analytic
disks, Schwarz Lemma