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February 2019 Quasi-negative holomorphic sectional curvature and positivity of the canonical bundle
Simone Diverio, Stefano Trapani
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J. Differential Geom. 111(2): 303-314 (February 2019). DOI: 10.4310/jdg/1549422103

Abstract

We show that if a compact complex manifold admits a Kähler metric whose holomorphic sectional curvature is everywhere non-positive and strictly negative in at least one point, then its canonical bundle is positive. This answers in the affirmative to a question first asked by S.-T. Yau.

Funding Statement

The first-named author is partially supported by the ANR Programme: Défi de tous les savoirs (DS10) 2015, “GRACK”, Project ID: ANR-15-CE40-0003ANR, and Défi de tous les savoirs (DS10) 2016, “FOLIAGE”, Project ID: ANR-16-CE40-0008.

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Simone Diverio. Stefano Trapani. "Quasi-negative holomorphic sectional curvature and positivity of the canonical bundle." J. Differential Geom. 111 (2) 303 - 314, February 2019. https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1549422103

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Received: 4 August 2016; Published: February 2019
First available in Project Euclid: 6 February 2019

zbMATH: 07015571
MathSciNet: MR3909909
Digital Object Identifier: 10.4310/jdg/1549422103

Subjects:
Primary: 32Q15
Secondary: 32Q05

Keywords: canonical bundle , holomorphic sectional curvature , Monge–Ampère equation

Rights: Copyright © 2019 Lehigh University

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