The Bergman metric on complete Kähler manifolds (Q1416724)

The author studies the Bergman completeness of complete Kähler manifolds. The main result of the paper is the following theorem. Let \((M,\omega)\) be a complete Kähler manifold with non-positive sectional curvature and the injectivity radius bounded below by a constant \(\tau>0\). Assume that for each \(y\in M\) there exists a plurisubharmonic function \(\lambda_y:M\rightarrow[-1,0)\) such that \(\partial\overline\partial\lambda_y\geq C'\omega\) on the geodesic ball \(B(y,\tau)\), and there exists a plurisubharmonic exhaustion function \(\Phi:M\rightarrow[-1,0)\) such that \(| \Phi(x)-\Phi(y)| \leq c\rho^\alpha(x,y)\), \(x,y\in M\), where \(\rho\) is the distance on \(M\). Then for every \(x_0\in M\) there exists a constant \(C>0\) such that \(\text{dist}_\beta(x_0,x)\geq C\log(-\log(-\Phi(x)))\), \(x\in M\), where dist\({}_\beta\) is the Bergman distance on \(M\). In particular, if \(M\) is a simply connected complete Kähler manifold with sectional curvature bounded above by a negative constant, then for every \(x_0\in M\) there exists a constant \(C>0\) such that dist\({}_\beta(x_0,x)\geq C\log\rho(x_0,x)\), \(x\in M\).