Non-pluripolar products on vector bundles and Chern–Weil formulae

In this paper, we develop several pluripotential-theoretic techniques for singular metrics on vector bundles. We first introduce the theory of non-pluripolar products on holomorphic vector bundles on complex manifolds. Then we define and study a special class of singularities of Hermitian metrics on vector bundles, called \(\mathcal {I}\) $\mathcal{I}$ -good singularities, partially extending Mumford’s notion of good singularities. Next, we derive a Chern–Weil type formula expressing the Chern numbers of Hermitian vector bundles with \(\mathcal {I}\) $\mathcal{I}$ -good singularities in terms of the associated b-divisors. We also define an intersection theory on the Riemann–Zariski space and apply it to reformulate our Chern–Weil formula.