J-pluripolar subsets and currents on almost complex manifolds

We prove that every almost complex submanifold of an almost complex manifold is locally J-pluripolar. This generalizes a result of Rosay for J-holomorphic submanifolds. Our second main result is an almost complex version of El Mir’s theorem for the extension of positive currents across locally complete pluripolar sets. As a consequence, we extend some results proved by Dabbek–Elkhadhra–El Mir and Dinh–Sibony in the standard complex case. We also obtain a version of the well-known results of Federer and Bassanelli for flat and \mathbb C{\mathbb {C}}-flat currents in the almost complex setting.