Direct images of adjoint line bundles (Q1265292)

The author studies ampleness and positivity properties of the direct image \(\varphi_*L\) of a holomorphic line bundle \(L\) under a smooth morphism \(\varphi:X\to Y\) between compact complex analytic manifolds. It is shown that, in general, the ampleness of \(L\) does not imply that of the direct image \(\varphi_*L\) but only that of the direct image of the adjoint line bundle \(\varphi_* (K_{X/Y}\otimes L)\).