A degenerate Monge-Ampère equation and the boundary classes of Kähler cones (Q843051)

The authors attack the following problem: if \(M\) is a compact Kähler manifold, which cohomology classes on the boundary of the Kähler cone admit a smooth \((1,1)\) representative which is pointwise non-negative definite? It is not hard to see that, in general, not every class on the boundary has such a representative. On the other hand, on any projective Calabi-Yau manifold, every rational class on the boundary with positive self-intersection admits such a representative (this follows from Kawamata's base-point-free theorem). The authors consider Kähler manifolds whose Kähler metric is nonnegatively curved in a suitable sense (which in dimension \(2\) is the same as nonnegative orthogonal bisectional curvature). They prove that any class on the boundary of the Kähler cone with zero self-intersection admits a non-negative representative (note that in the statement of the main theorem they forgot to state the hypothesis on the self-intersection). The non-negative form is constructed by solving a family of degenerating complex Monge-Ampère equations.