On the extension of quasiplurisubharmonic functions

Abstract

Let $(V,\omega )$ be a compact Kähler manifold such that $V$ admits a cover by Zariski-open Stein sets with the property that $\omega$ has a strictly plurisubharmonic exhaustive potential on each element of the cover. If $X\subset V$ is an analytic subvariety, we prove that any $\omega {|}_X$-plurisubharmonic function on $X$ extends to a $\omega$-plurisubharmonic function on $V$. This result generalizes a previous result of ours on the extension of singular metrics of ample line bundles. It allows one to show that any transcendental Kähler class in the real Neron-Severi space $N{S}_{\mathbb{R}}(V)$ has this extension property.

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