Singular hermitian metrics on holomorphic vector bundles

Journal article, 2015

We introduce and study the notion of singular hermitian metrics on holomorphic vector bundles, following Berndtsson and Pun. We define what it means for such a metric to be positively and negatively curved in the sense of Griffiths and investigate the assumptions needed in order to locally define the curvature I similar to (h) as a matrix of currents. We then proceed to show that such metrics can be regularised in such a way that the corresponding curvature tensors converge weakly to I similar to (h) . Finally we define what it means for h to be strictly negatively curved in the sense of Nakano and show that it is possible to regularise such metrics with a sequence of smooth, strictly Nakano negative metrics.