Elementary construction of exhausting subsolutions of elliptic operators

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Authors Terrence Napier, Mohan Ramachandran

Publication date 28 September 2005

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0405533

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic operatorexhausting subsolutionsRiemannian manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05)

Abstract: By a theorem of Greene and Wu, a noncompact connected Riemannian manifold admits a smooth strictly subharmonic exhaustion function. Demailly provided an elementary proof of this fact. A further simplification of Demailly's proof and some (mostly known) applications are described. Applications include the fact that the holomorphic line bundle associated to a nontrivial effective divisor on a compact connected complex manifold admits a smooth Hermitian metric with positive scalar curvature.

Review text

A noncompact Riemannian manifold admits a \(C^\infty\) strictly subharmonic exhausting function as it follows by a theorem due to \textit{R. E. Greene} and {H. Wu} [Ann. Inst. Fourier 25, No. 1, 215--235 (1975; Zbl 0307.31003)]. An elementary proof of this fact is given by \textit{J.-P. Demailly} [Math. Z. 204, No. 2, 283--295 (1990; Zbl 0682.32017)]. In the paper under review, the authors propose a further simplification of Demailly's proof and describe some, mostly known, applications. These include for instance, the fact that the holomorphic line bundle associated to a nontrivial effective divisor on a compact connected complex manifold admits a \(C^\infty\) Hermitian metric with positive scalar curvature.

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