Sharp Summability of Nevanlinna Defects for Finite-Lower-Order Holomorphic Curves
For a countable family of hyperplanes $H_j\subset \mathbb{P}^m$, $j\in\mathbb{N}$, in general position and a linearly nondegenerate holomorphic curve $f\colon \mathbb{C}\to \mathbb{P}^m$ of finite lower order, we prove that the Nevanlinna defects $\delta_f(H_j)$ satisfy $$ \sum_{j=1}^{\infty}\delta_f(H_j)^{1/3}<\infty. $$ This resolves a long-standing open problem in Nevanlinna theory and extends Weitsman's celebrated scalar endpoint theorem (the case $m=1$) as well as Krutin's results for exponents strictly greater than $1/3$. The same uniform finite-family estimate yields the corresponding endpoint theorem for divisors cut out on a projective variety by ambient hypersurfaces of uniformly bounded degree, assuming that the divisors are in general position with respect to the variety and that the curve is not contained in the support of any divisor.