Compactification of complete Kähler manifolds of negative Ricci curvature (Q1113111): Difference between revisions

The authors investigate the problem of compactification of complete Kähler manifolds of negative Ricci curvature. The main result is the following theorem: Let M be a complete Kähler manifold of dimension m and let \(\omega\) be the Kähler form. Assume the following: 1. \(Ric(\omega)<0\). 2. M is very strongly (m-2)-pseudoconcave. 3. The universal cover of M is Stein. Then M is biholomorphic to a quasiprojective manifold. Let us also mention that M is said to be very strongly (m-q)- pseudoconcave if there exists an infinite continuous exhaustion v whose complex Hessian \(\sqrt{-1}\partial {\bar \partial}\nu\) is seminegative and has at least q negative eigenvalues outside of a compact subset of M in the sense of distributions. The proof depends on the weak Riemann-Roch theorem for \(L^ 2\)-plurigeneral and the existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics. Also a purely differential geometric criterion for noncompact complete Kähler manifolds of finite volume to be quasiprojective is given.