Comparison of the Kobayashi-Royden and Sibony metrics on ring domains (Q983636)

Let \(\Omega \) be a domain in \(\mathbb{C}^n\). The Kobayashi-Roden metric on \(\Omega\) is defined by \[ K_\Omega (p;\xi):= \inf \{\frac{1}{c} ;\,\,c>0,\,\,\, f'(0)=c \xi,\,\,\,f \in \Omega (\Delta),\,\, f(0)=p\} \] for \((p,\xi) \in \Omega \times \mathbb{C}^n\). Here, \(\Omega (\Delta)\) denotes the set of holomorphic mappings from the unit disc \(\Delta \subset \mathbb{C}\) to \(\Omega\). Furthermore, one has the Sibony metric, which is defined by \[ S_\Omega (p;\xi):= \sup_u \sqrt{\sum_{i,j=1}^n \, \frac{\partial^2u}{\partial z_i\partial \bar z_j} (p) \xi_i \bar \xi_j } \] where the sup is taken over all plurisubharmonic functions \(u\) with values in \([0,1)\) that are \(C^2\) near \(p\) and vanish at \(p\). In this article the author shows that on the ``ring domain'' \[ \Omega=\Omega_r := \{z \,|\, r<\|z\| <1 \} \] (with \(0<r<1\)) the above metrics \(K_\Omega\) and \(S_\Omega\) are not identical for \(n\geq 2\).