The Bergman metric on a Stein manifold with a bounded plurisubharmonic function

Abstract

In this article, we use the pluricomplex Green function to give a sufficient condition for the existence and the completeness of the Bergman metric. As a consequence, we proved that a simply connected complete Kahler manifold possesses a complete Bergman metric provided that the Riemann sectional curvature < -A/ρ 2 , which implies a conjecture of Greene and Wu. Moreover, we obtain a sharp estimate for the Bergman distance on such manifolds.