Singular hermitian metrics on holomorphic vector bundles

Abstract: We introduce and study a notion of singular hermitian metrics on holomorphic vector bundles, following Berndtsson and P{\u{a}}un. We define what it means for such a metric to be curved in the sense of Griffiths and investigate the assumptions needed in order to locally define the cuvature $\Theta^h$ 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 $\Theta^h$. 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.