Hyperbolic domains in real Euclidean spaces (Q6188619): Difference between revisions

Recently, \textit{F. Forstneric} and \textit{D. Kalaj} [``Schwarz-Pick lemma for harmonic maps which are conformal at a point'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:2102.12403}] introduced a pseudometric on any domain in the real Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R}^n\), with \(n\geq 3\), defined in terms of conformal harmonic discs, by analogy with Kobayashi's pseudometric on complex manifolds. They showed that on the unit ball, this minimal metric coincides with the classical Beltrami-Cayley-Klein metric. In the present paper the authors investigate properties of the minimal pseudometric and give sufficient conditions for this minimal pseudometric to be a complete metric. They show, in particular, that the minimal pseudometric on a convex domain is complete if and only if the domain does not contain any affine 2-planes. Moreover, if a domain admits a negative minimal plurisubharmonic exhaustion function then the pseudometric is complete, and the same holds for bounded strongly minimally convex domains.