From division to extension
Roberto Albesiano
TL;DR
The paper shows that a variant of the $L^2$ extension theorem of Ohsawa–Takegoshi and Manivel can be obtained as a corollary of a Skoda-type $L^2$ division theorem with bounded generators. It introduces a division theorem with bounded generators and develops a degeneration scheme for a family of norms, together with curvature computations, to drive the datum-norm exponent down to $1$ and obtain a controlled extension; in the codimension-1 case explicit curvature conditions and constants are discussed. An aside yields a Briançon–Skoda-type inclusion of multiplier ideals, illustrating the broad applicability of the new division framework. The approach links division and extension through a Berndtsson–Lempert degeneration method, highlighting how generator boundedness improves the weight in the datum norm and yields quantitative extension results.
Abstract
We present a short proof of a version of the Ohsawa-Takegoshi-Manivel $L^2$ extension theorem as a corollary of a Skoda-type $L^2$ division theorem with bounded generators. The new division theorem is of independent interest: the boundedness of generators allows to send the parameter $α>1$ of the usual $L^2$ division theorems to 1 in the norm of the datum of the division. As an aside, we also use the new division theorem to prove a Briançon-Skoda-type result.
