Extension of Jets With $L^2$ Estimates, and an Application

Abstract: We study the problem of extension of normal jets from a hypersurface, with focus on the growth order of the constant. Using aspects of the standard, twisted approach for $L^2$ extension and of the new approach to $L^2$ extension introduced by Berndtsson and Lempert, we are able to obtain an extension theorem with a constant $C^k$ where $C$ is universal and $k$ is the jet order. We then use the jet extension theorem to extend positively curved singular Hermitian metrics from smooth, deformably pseudoeffective hypersurfaces in projective manifolds.