Balanced metrics on complex vector bundles and the diastatic exponential of a symmetric space

This thesis deals with two different subjects: balanced metrics on complex vector bundles and the diastatic exponential of a symmetric space. Correspondingly we have two main results. In the first one we prove that if a holomorphic vector bundle E over a compact Kähler manifold (M,ω) admits a ω-balanced metric then this metric is unique. In the second one, after defining the diastatic exponential of a real analytic Kähler manifold, we prove that for every point p of an Hermitian symmetric space of noncompact type there exists a globally defined diastatic exponential centered in p which is a diffeomorphism and it is uniquely determined by its restriction to polydisks.