Complete Kähler-Einstein metrics under certain holomorphic covering and examples (Q2416565)

This paper is concerned with the existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics on complete Kähler manifolds. In case the manifold is assumed to be compact such questions have attracted much attention and led to numerous results of fundamental importance in Kähler geometry. The complete non-compact case has also attracted a lot of attention, and in particular Wu and Yau have authored several papers previously in this direction. The main result of this paper is an improvement of some earlier contributions of the authors regarding existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics on complete non-compact Kähler manifolds with bounded holomorphic sectional curvature. More precisely, they proved in a recent paper [\textit{D. Wu} and \textit{S.-T. Yau}, ``Invariant metrics on negatively pinched complete Kähler manifolds'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1711.09475}] an existence result under the hypothesis that the holomorphic sectional curvature \(H(\omega)\) satisfies \(-B \leq H(\omega) \leq -A\) for some positive constants \(A,B\), noting in particular that no bounds on the Ricci curvature are needed in the hypothesis. In this paper the main result allows \(H(\omega)\) to be slightly positive, namely \(-B \leq H(\omega) \leq A\) for some positive constants \(A\) and \(B\), but on the other hand additional technical assumptions are needed (see Theorem 1.3). As a consequence of the main result in this paper, they are also able to show that if \(K_M\) is nef and \(M\) is a compact Kähler manifold which is Caratheodory hyperbolic in one point, then the canonical bundle \(K_M\) is big. This extends previous results by the first author [in: Several complex variables: Proceedings of the Mittag-Leffler Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 1987-1988. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 640--682 (1993; Zbl 0773.32017)] and \textit{S. Kikuta} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 139, No. 4, 1411--1420 (2011; Zbl 1232.32015)], which state that Caratheodory hyperbolicity implies that \(K_M\) is ample. Finally, their results are also amenable to examples. In particular, the paper provides new examples of complete non-compact Kähler-Einstein manifolds of negative Ricci curvature.