Upper bounds for Bergman kernels associated to positive line bundles with smooth Hermitian metrics

Abstract: Off-diagonal upper bounds are established away from the diagonal for the Bergman kernels associated to high powers of holomorphic line bundles over compact complex manifolds, asymptotically as the power tends to infinity. The line bundle is assumed to be equipped with a Hermitian metric with positive curvature form, which is infinitely differentiable but not necessarily real analytic. The bounds obtained are the best possible for this class of metrics.