A twisted complex Brunn-Minkowski theorem

Abstract

In his Annals of Mathematics paper [2], Berndtsson proves an important result on the Nakano positivity of holomorphic infinite-rank vector bundles whose fibers are Hilbert spaces consisting of holomorphic L2-functions with respect to a family of weight functions {e−φ(t,⋅)}t∈U, varying in t∈U⊂Cm, over a pseudoconvex domain. Using a variant of Hörmander's theorem due to Donnelly and Fefferman, we show that Berndtsson's Nakano positivity result holds under different (in fact, more general) curvature assumptions. This is of particular interest when the manifold admits a negative non-constant plurisubharmonic function, as these curvature assumptions then allow for some curvature negativity. We describe this setting as a “twisted” setting.