On negativity of total k-jet curvature and ampleness of the canonical bundle

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Abstract: A celebrated conjecture of Kobayashi and Lang says that the canonical line bundle

K_{X}

of a Kobayashi hyperbolic compact complex manifold

X

is ample. In this note we prove that

K_{X}

is ample if

X

is projective and satisfies a stronger condition of nondegenerate negative total

k

-jet curvature. We use positivity of direct image sheaves and decomposition of jets in order to produce pluridifferentials on

X

.

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