Vanishing theorems for \(L^2\)-cohomology on infinite coverings of compact Kähler manifolds and applications in algebraic geometry (Q1971635)

The authors introduce the notion of Kähler nonellipticity which is weaker than the notion of Kähler hyperbolicity given by Gromov: a compact Kähler manifold \((X,\omega)\) is Kähler nonelliptic if \(\omega\) is \(\widetilde d\) (linear growth) i.e. for some covering \(\widetilde X\to X\) the lifting \(\widetilde\omega\) is of the form \(\widetilde d\beta\) with \(\|\beta(x)\|_{\widetilde g,\widetilde h}\leq c \text{dist}_{\widetilde g}(x,x_\circ)+c'\) where \(c\) and \(c'\) are constants (that may depend on \(\beta\) and \(x_\circ\), but not on \(x\)), where \(\widetilde d\) is the exterior derivative on \(\widetilde X\), \(\widetilde g\) is the lifting of the Riemannian metric \(g\) on \(X\), \(\widetilde h\) is a metric on the fibres, and \(x_\circ\) is an arbitrary point in \(\widetilde X\). The main result of the paper is the following ``Gromov type vanishing theorem'': if \((X,\omega)\) is Kähler nonelliptic the \(L^2\)-cohomology of \(\widetilde X\) vanishes except in the middle dimension \(\dim_{\mathbb C}X\).