For $q\geq 3$, we let $\mathcal{S}_q$ denote the projectivization of the set
of symmetric $q\times q$ matrices with coefficients in $\mathbb{C}$. We let
$I(x)=(x_{i,j})^{-1}$ denote the matrix inversion, and we let
$J(x)=(x_{i,j}^{-1})$ be the matrix whose entries are the reciprocals of the
entries of $x$. We let $K|\mathcal{S}_q=I\circ J:\mathcal{S}_q\rightarrow
\mathcal{S}_q$ denote the restriction of the composition $I\circ J$ to
$\mathcal{S}_q$. This is a birational map whose properties have attracted some
attention in statistical mechanics.
We obtain some two-bound estimates for the local growth of pluri-subharmonic
functions. We propose a conjecture which is similar to the comparison theorem
in [H. Alexander and B. A. Taylor, Comparison of two capacities in
$\mathbb{C}^n$, Math. Z. 186 (1984), 407--417]. We verify this conjecture in
several cases. We then show that this conjecture implies extensions of the main
result in [Alexander Brudnyi, Local inequalities for pluri-subharmonic
functions, Annals Math. 149 (1999), No. 2, pp. 511--533]. In the appendix we
give a new proof to that result of Brudnyi.