Generation by sections and $k$-ampleness
  In the article "Submanifold of abelian varieties", A.J. Sommese proved that direct sum and tensor product of two vector bundles $E$ and $F$ over a smooth projective variety are $k$-ample if $E$ and $F$ are $k$-ample and are generated by global sections. Here we show that the latter condition is not needed. 
Werner Nahm, Fatima Laytimi
math.AG