Kähler manifolds and mixed curvature

Abstract

In this work we consider compact Kähler manifolds with non-positive mixed curvature which is a “convex combination” of Ricci curvature and holomorphic sectional curvature. We show that in this case, the canonical line bundle is nef. Moreover, if the curvature is negative at some point, then the manifold is projective with canonical line bundle being big and nef. If in addition the curvature is negative, then the canonical line bundle is ample. As an application, we answer a question of Ni [Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 74 (2021), pp. 1100–1126] concerning manifolds with negative k k -Ricci curvature and generalize a result of Wu-Yau [Comm. Anal. Geom. 24 (2016), pp. 901–912] and Diverio-Trapani [J. Differential Geom. 111 (2019), pp. 303–314] to the conformally Kähler case. We also show that the compact Kähler manifold is projective and simply connected if the mixed curvature is positive.