Hermitian metrics of positive holomorphic sectional curvature on fibrations (Q2182417)

In the article under review, the authors adress the construction of Hermitian metrics with positive holomorphic curvature on compact complex manifolds. The ambiant space is actually the total space of a fibration (holomorphic submersion) \(\pi:X\to Y\) and it is rather natural to ask wether the existence of metrics with positive curvature both on \(Y\) and on the fibers of \(\pi\) implies the existence of such a metric on \(X\). The corresponding question was answered positively by \textit{C.-K. Cheung} [Math. Z. 201, No. 1, 105--119 (1989; Zbl 0648.53037)] in the opposite case of negative curvature. In the positive curvature case, such metrics were constructed by \textit{N. J. Hitchin} [Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 27, Part 2, 65--80 (1975; Zbl 0321.53052)] on Hirzebruch surfaces. The main result of this article is a positive answer to the above mentioned question. The proof is quite natural although the computations being a bit involved. As explained by the authors, it is not clear if their method can be used either in the semi-positive case or when the map \(\pi\) has singular fibres. Let us make a final remark: the metric cooked up in this article is merely a Hermitian one, even if the data we started with are Kähler.