On the growth of von Neumann dimension of harmonic spaces of semipositive line bundles over covering manifolds

Abstract

We study the harmonic space of line bundle valued forms over a covering manifold with a discrete group action, and obtain an asymptotic estimate for the von Neumann dimension of the space of harmonic [Formula: see text]-forms with values in high tensor powers of a semipositive line bundle. In particular, we estimate the von Neumann dimension of the corresponding reduced [Formula: see text]-Dolbeault cohomology group. The main tool is a local estimate of the pointwise norm of harmonic forms with values in semipositive line bundles over Hermitian manifolds.