Volume growth and curvature decay of positively curved Kähler manifolds (Q2501371)

Combining the classical Bishop theorem and results of Calabi-Yau, one has that the volume growth of a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold with non-negative Ricci curvature is at least linear and at most Euclidean. For complex \(n\)-dimensional complete non-compact Kähler manifolds of positive bisectional holomorphic curvature, the authors show that the volume growth of a geodesic ball must be at least the \(n\)-th power of the radius and the average of the scalar curvature less than the inverse of the radius (plus \(1\)). This allows a partial answer to Yau's uniformisation conjecture for complex surfaces of maximal volume growth. Both geometric quantities are related in Theorem 3, where a lower estimate of the volume growth of geodesic balls around a fixed point of an \(n\)-dimensional complex complete non-compact Kähler manifold with bounded and negative curvature operator, in terms of the \(2n\)-th power of the radius \(r\), implies an upper bound in \(\ln(2+r)/r^2\) of the average scalar curvature around this given point. While the first results are based on cut-off functions constructed by Schoen and Yau and the plurisubharmonicity of the Buseman function, the last theorem uses Hamilton's Ricci flow (shown to exist in all time), with the Kähler metric as initial data, to obtain linear curvature estimates of the solution and deduce quadratic curvature estimates for the initial metric.