Regularity of complex geodesics and (non-)Gromov hyperbolicity of convex tube domains (Q1689401)

The authors study the non-Gromov hyperbolicity of tube domains \(T_D=D+i\mathbb R^n\subset\mathbb C^n\) with respect to the Kobayashi distance \(k_{T_D}\). Recall that a pseudometric space \((X,d)\) is \textit{non-Gromov hyperbolic} if \(\sup\{S_X(x,y,z,w): x, y, z, w\in X\}=+\infty\), where \(S_X(x,y,z,w):=d(x,z)+d(y,w)-\max\{d(x,y)+d(z,w), d(y,z)+d(x,w)\}\). Let \(x\in\partial D\). We say that \((D,x)\) satisfies (*) if for any \(v\in\mathbb R^n\) one of the following conditions is satisfied: (1) \((x+[0,+\infty)v)\cap D=\emptyset\), (2) \(\exists_{\varepsilon>0}: x+(0,\varepsilon)w\subset D\) for \(w\in\mathbb R^n\) near \(v\). Let \(C_D(x):=\{v\in\mathbb R^n: (2) \text{ is satisfied}\}\). The main result is the following theorem. Let \(\subset\mathbb R^n\) be a domain with \(0\in\partial D\) such that \((D,0)\) satisfies (*). Let \(0<t_k\nearrow+\infty\). Assume that \(d_{t_kD}\) and \(d_{C_D(0)}\) are pseudodistances such that \(d_{t_kD}\longrightarrow d_{C_D(0)}\) and \[ S_{t_kD}(t_kx, t_ky, t_kz, t_kw)=S_{C_D(0)}(x,y,z,w),\quad x,y,z,w\in D,\quad k\in\mathbb N. \] Then, if the space \((C_D(0), d_{C_D(0)})\) is non-Gromov hyperbolic, then so is \((D,d_D)\). In particular, as applications, the authors get the following results. -- If \(D\subset\mathbb C^n\) is convex, \(z\in\partial D\), and \((C_D(z), k_{C_D(z)})\) is non-Gromov hyperbolic, then \((D,k_D)\) is non-Gromov hyperbolic. -- If \(\Omega\subset\mathbb R^2\) is a convex domain such that \((T_\Omega, k_{T_\Omega})\) is Gromov hyperbolic, then \(\Omega\) is \(\mathcal C^1\)-smooth and stricly convex. -- If \(D\subset\mathbb C^2\) is a convex Reinhardt domain whose Minkowski functional is not \(\mathcal C^1\) on \(\mathbb C^2\setminus\{0\}\), then \((D,k_D)\) is non-Gromov hyperbolic. In the context of non-Gromov hyperbolicity the authors investigate also the boundary behavior of geodesics in tube domains over bounded, smooth, and strictly convex bases.