A direct approach to Bergman kernel asymptotics for positive line bundles (Q950713)

The authors give a new, direct, and elementary construction of the asymptotic expansion with respect to~\(k\) of the Bergman kernel associated to a high power \(L^k\) of a positive line bundle~\(L\) over a compact complex manifold. Previously, \textit{S. Zelditch} [Int. Math. Res. Not. 1998, No.~6, 317--331 (1998; Zbl 0922.58082)] and \textit{D. Catlin} [Trends in Mathematics, 1--23 (1999; Zbl 0941.32002)] obtained such an asymptotic expansion by applying work of \textit{L. Boutet de Monvel} and \textit{J. Sjöstrand} [Astérisque 34--35, 123--164 (1976; Zbl 0344.32010)] concerning asymptotic expansions of kernels on strictly pseudoconvex domains. This article uses instead some ideas from a book of the third author [Astérisque 95, 1--166 (1982; Zbl 0524.35007)] to compute local asymptotic Bergman kernels on small coordinate patches. The positivity hypothesis implies that the global Bergman kernel is asymptotically equal to the local kernels.