Uniform estimates for the hyperbolic metric and Euclidean distance to the boundary (Q1590938)

Let \(D\) be a hyperbolic domain in the complex plane and denote by \(\lambda_D\) the Poincaré hyperbolic metric for \(D\). The inequality \(\lambda_D \text{dist} (z,\partial D)\leq 2\) \((z\in D)\) is well-known. If \(G\) is simply connected then there exists the lower estimate \(\lambda_G(z) \text{dist} (z,\partial G)\geq {1\over 2}\) \((z\in G)\). The authors characterize geometrically those hyperbolic domains such that \(\sup_{z\in D}\lambda_D (z)\text{dist}(z, \partial D)<2\) as well as all simply connected domains \(G\) with \(\inf_{z\in G}\lambda_G(z) \text{dist} (z,\partial G)> {1\over 2}\).