Boundary behaviors of the Poincaré density and its derivatives near a nonisolated boundary point (Q1330242)

Suppose \(G\) is a hyperbolic region in the complex plane and \(\lambda_ G (z) | dz |\) is the hyperbolic metric on \(G\). In a prior paper [Kodai Math. J. 16, No. 1, 235-243 (1993; Zbl 0794.30035)] the author obtained precise bounds on the behavior of the density \(\lambda_ G (z)\) of the hyperbolic metric and some of its derivatives in a neighborhood of an isolated boundary point. In the present paper he investigates the boundary behavior of \(\lambda_ G (z)\) and its first and second order partial derivatives in terms of the euclidean distance \(\delta_ G (z)\) from \(z\) to the boundary of \(G\) near a nonisolated boundary point. Roughly speaking, the bounds are obtained by obtaining a sharp lower bound on the density of the hyperbolic metric on a standard region \(\Omega (K) = \mathbb{C} \backslash K\), where \(K\) is a nondegenerate continuum in \(\mathbb{C}\). The crucial case is when \(K\) is compact so that \(\Omega (K)\) is conformally equivalent to a punctured disk. The author has a number of results for this case.