Hyperbolic metric, curvature of geodesics and hyperbolic discs in hyperbolic plane domains (Q920242)

A region D in the complex plane \({\mathbb{D}}\) is hyperbolic if \({\mathbb{C}}\setminus {\mathbb{D}}\) contains at least two points. The hyperbolic metric on D is the unique complete conformal metric on D with constant curvature -4. One aspect of this paper is an investigation of connections between analytic conditions on a covering projection of the unit disk \(\Delta\) onto D (such as its linearly invariant order) and geometric conditions on D (such as the Euclidean curvature of hyperbolic geodesics). By making use of these connections, the author shows that a number of known results in geometric function theory can be expressed in a hyperbolic geometric form. (An intriguing question is whether one can give purely hyperbolic geometric proofs of these hyperbolic geometric theorems.) The author also studies the hyperbolic radius of injectivity r(D) (convexity \(r_ c(D))\), the largest value r such that every hyperbolic disk in D with radius r is simply connected (convex). For doubly connected regions D explicit results are given in terms of the conformal modulus of D.