TITLE: Non-compact Kähler manifolds which admit a positive line bundle
QUESTION [9 upvotes]: A complex manifold which admits a positive line bundle is automatically Kähler. Furthermore, if the manifold is compact, then it is projective by the Kodaira Embedding Theorem. In particular, not every compact Kähler manifold can admit a positive line bundle. What about in the non-compact case? That is:

Are there any restrictions as to which non-compact Kähler manifolds can admit a positive line bundle?

REPLY [5 votes]: Take a K3, or a general $n$-dimensional complex torus $M$, $n>1$, without any integer (1,1)-classes, and remove a point $x$. You will obtain a non-compact Kahler manifold without any non-trivial line bundles (because its second cohomology stays the same). For such a manifold it's not hard to show that no positive bundles exist. Indeed, if there is a positive line bundle, it must be trivial. 
Then you would have a positive form $\eta$ which is exact. By Sibony's lemma
(see e.g. arXiv:0712.4036, Theorem 5.1), $\eta$ is locally integrable around $x$. Then, by 
Skoda-El Mir theorem, the trivial extension of $\eta$ to $M$ is a closed, positive and
hence exact current. This is impossible, because $M$ is compact and Kahler.