Are holomorphic quasi-positive line bundles on a Kähler manifold positive?

Holomorphic quasi-positive line bundles on a complex manifold $M$ are line bundles whose chern class can be represented by a closed $(1,1)$-form which is quasi-positive, that is, non-negative at all points on M and strictly positive at least at one point on $M$. Positive line bundles are defined similarly.

Now my question is: Are holomorphic quasi-line bundles on a compact complex manifold $M$ positive? The answer is negative, because there are non-projective Moishezon manifolds. A Moishezon manifold has a quasi-positive line bundle. So, quasi-positive line bundles on a non-projective Moishezon manifold cannot be positive.

So now I ask a related question: Are holomorphic quasi-line bundles on a compact Kähler manifold $M$ positive? The answer seems to be negative. But can one give an example, that is, a quasi-positive line bundle that is not positive? Or prove it, if it is true. Thank you.

• Consider a projective manifold with line bundle $L$. Then $L$ is nef if and only if it admits a semipositive metric, and it is ample if and only if it admits a positive metric. Moreover, if $L$ is big then a semipositive metric will be positive at some point. But a big and nef divisor need not be ample. (Take the pullback of an ample divisor by a blow up.) – Vesselin Dimitrov Oct 14 '15 at 19:48
• @Vesselin Dimitrov: the statement that $L$ is nef if and only if it admits a semipositive metric is false, see example 1.7 here www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~demailly/manuscripts/dps1.pdf – YangMills Oct 17 '15 at 5:48
• @YangMills: Yes, the $\Rightarrow$ implication does not hold - thank you for correcting me and pointing to to that counterexmpe! This is not however used in the example I gave, which is the same one as yours (a pullback). – Vesselin Dimitrov Oct 17 '15 at 17:28
• @Vesselin Dimitrov: sorry, for some reason I did not notice that you already gave that example in your comment, and I repeated it in my answer... – YangMills Oct 18 '15 at 4:21

Take $X$ any smooth projective variety of dimension at least $2$, let $H$ be an ample (i.e. positive) line bundle on $X$, let $\pi:Y\to X$ be the blow-up of a point in $X$ and let $L=\pi^*H$. Then $L$ is quasipositive (being the pullback of a positive line bundle by a holomorphic map which is an isomorphism on a Zariski open set) but not positive (its intersection number with the exceptional divisor of $\pi$ is zero), and $Y$ is a projective manifold (in particular Kähler).