Quasihyperbolic geodesics in convex domains. II (Q652906)

This paper is a continuation to the article [the second author, Result. Math. 48, No. 1--2, 184--195 (2005; Zbl 1093.30018)]. Let \(E\) be a real Banach space with \(\dim E\geq 2\) and let \(G \subsetneq E\) be a domain. The quasihyperbolic length of a rectifiable arc \(\gamma \subset G\) is the number \[ l_k (\gamma) = \int_\gamma \frac{1} {\delta (x)}| dx|, \] where \(\delta (x)= d (x, E\backslash G)\). For \(a, b \in G\) the quasihyperbolic distance \(k(a, b) = k_G (a, b)\) is defined by \[ k(a, b) = \inf l_k (\gamma), \] where the infimum is taken over all rectifiable arcs \(\gamma\) joining \(a\) and \(b\) in \(G\). An arc \(\gamma\) from \(a\) to \(b\) is said to be a quasihyperbolic geodesic if \(l_k (\gamma) = k(a, b)\). One of the main results in the paper under review (Theorem 2.11) asserts the uniqueness of the quasihyperbolic geodesic in a convex domain \(G\) in a uniformly convex space \(E\). Another important result (Theorem 3.18) proves that each hyperbolic geodesic \(\gamma\) from \(a\) to \(b\) in \(G\) can be prolonged to a quasihyperbolic geodesic ray \(\gamma^*\) from \(a\) to a point \(b^* \in \partial G\) with \(\gamma \subset \gamma^*\) if \(G\) is a convex domain in a finite-dimensional uniformly convex space.