ON THE VOLUME OF A LINE BUNDLE

Abstract

Using the Calabi–Yau technique to solve Monge-Ampère equations, we translate a result of T. Fujita on approximate Zariski decompositions into an analytic setting and combine this to the holomorphic Morse inequalities in order to express the volume of a line bundle as the maximum of the mean curvatures of all the singular Hermitian metrics on it, with a way to pick an element at which the maximum is reached and satisfying a singular Monge–Ampère equation. This enables us to introduce the volume of any (1,1)-class on a compact Kähler manifold, and Fujita's theorem is then extended to this context.