Pluripotential geometry on semi-positive effective divisors of numerical dimension one

Abstract

We study the complex-analytic geometry of semi-positive holomorphic line bundles on compact K\"ahler manifolds. In one of our main results, for a $\mathbb{Q}$-effective line bundle satisfying a natural torsion-type assumption, we show the equivalence between semi-positivity and semi-ampleness. More generally, for an effective nef divisor of numerical dimension one, we characterize the semi-positivity of the associated line bundle in terms of the existence of a certain type of pseudoflat fundamental system of neighborhoods of the support. Furthermore, for an effective semi-positive divisor, we prove a dichotomy: either the divisor is the pull-back of a $\mathbb{Q}$-divisor by a fibration onto a Riemann surface, or the Hartogs extension phenomenon holds on the complement of its support. Our proof is based on a pluripotential method that has previously been used for studying the boundaries of pseudoconvex domains, which allows us to investigate the complex-analytic structure of neighborhoods of the support of the divisor even when the manifold is non-compact.