Complex Hessian equations on some compact Kähler manifolds (Q5917884)

Summary: On a compact connected \(2m\)-dimensional Kähler manifold with Kähler form \(w\), given a smooth function \(f : M \to \mathbb R\) and an integer \(1 < k < m\), we want to solve uniquely in \([w]\) the equation \(\tilde{w}^k \wedge w^{m-k} = e^f w^m\), relying on the notion of \(k\)-positivity for \(\tilde{w} \in [w]\) (the extreme cases are solved: \(k = m\) by (Yau in 1978), and \(k = 1\) trivially). We solve by the continuity method the corresponding complex elliptic \(k\)-th Hessian equation, more difficult to solve than the Calabi-Yau equation \((k = m)\), under the assumption that the holomorphic bisectional curvature of the manifold is nonnegative, required here only to derive an a priori eigenvalues pinching.