On necessary and sufficient conditions for the Kobayashi hyperbolicity of tube domains in C^2

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Abstract: This note concerns tube domains in mathbbC2 with the envelope of holomorphy not equal to the entire space. We construct examples showing that for such domains the sufficient condition for Kobayashi hyperbolicity due to M. Jarnicki and P. Pflug cannot be replaced by its weaker "affine" variant, which is known to be a necessary condition for hyperbolicity. Thus, we arrive at the somewhat unexpected conclusion that the obstructions for a domain in the above class to be Kobayashi hyperbolic are not just "affine".


Let \(T_D=D+i\mathbb R^2\subset\mathbb C^2\) be a tube domain with \(D\subset\{(x_1,x_2)\in\mathbb R^2: x_2>0\}\). We say that \(D\) satisfies (J-P)\(_{\text{aff}}\) (resp.~(J-P); resp.~(L)) if there does not exist a point \((a_1,a_2)\in D\) such that for every \(k\in\mathbb N\) we can find an affine function \(\gamma_k\) such that \((t,\gamma_k(t))\in D\) and \(|\gamma_k(t)-a_2|\leq1/k\), \(t\in[-k,k]\) (resp.~we can find a real analytic function \(\gamma_k\) on \([-k,k]\) such that \((t,\gamma_k(t))\in D\) and \(|\gamma_k(t)-a_2|\leq1/k\), \(t\in[-k,k]\); resp.~we can find a \(b_k\in\mathbb R\) such that \([-k,k]\times\{b_k\}\subset D\) and \(b_k\to a_2\)). It was known that \(T_D\) is Kobayashi hyperbolic \(\Longleftarrow\) (J-P) \(\Longrightarrow\) (J-P)\(_{\text{aff}}\) \(\Longrightarrow\) (L). The author constructs an example of a \(\mathcal C^\infty\)-smooth domain \(D\subset\{x_2>0\}\) with (J-P)\({}_{\text{aff}}\) such that the tube domain \(T_D=D+i\mathbb R^2\) is not hyperbolic.











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