Gromov hyperbolicity of pseudoconvex finite type domains in C^2

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Abstract: We prove that every bounded smooth domain of finite d'Angelo type in mathbbC2 endowed with the Kobayashi distance is Gromov hyperbolic and its Gromov boundary is canonically homeomorphic to the Euclidean boundary. We also show that any domain in mathbbC2 endowed with the Kobayashi distance is Gromov hyperbolic provided there exists a sequence of automorphisms that converges to a smooth boundary point of finite D'Angelo type.


It is natural to ask whether a domain in \(\mathbb{C}^n\) endowed with the Kobayashi metric is Gromov hyperbolic. It is known that bounded strongly pseudoconvex domains in \(\mathbb{C}^n\) endowed with the Kobayashi distance are Gromov hyperbolic [\textit{Z. M. Balogh} and \textit{M. Bonk}, Comment. Math. Helv. 75, No. 3, 504--533 (2000; Zbl 0986.32012)]. Zimmer showed that a smooth convex domain in \(\mathbb{C}^n\) endowed with the Kobayashi distance is Gromov hyperbolic if and only if it is of D' Angelo finite type [\textit{A. M. Zimmer}, Math. Ann. 365, No. 3--4, 1425--1498 (2016; Zbl 1379.53053)]. The author shows that a bounded smooth pseudoconvex finite D'Angelo-type domain in \(\mathbb{C}^2\) endowed with the Kobayashi metric is Gromov hyperbolic. Furthermore, its Gromov boundary is canonically homeomorphic to the Euclidean boundary. The proof uses \textit{D. W. Catlin}'s estimates [Math. Z. 200, No. 3, 429--466 (1989; Zbl 0661.32030)] and \textit{E. Bedford} and \textit{S. Pinchuk}'s scaling method [Indiana Univ. Math. J. 47, No. 1, 199--222 (1998; Zbl 0907.32012)]. In particular, the author shows that a pseudoconvex domain \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{C}^2\) with the smooth boundary \(\partial \Omega\) is complete Kobayashi hyperbolic, if there exists \(\varsigma\in \partial \Omega\) such that \(\partial \Omega\) is of finite D' Angelo type in a neighborhood of \(\varsigma\) and there exists a sequence of automorphisms \(\{\phi_n\}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}\) of \(\mathbb{C}^2\) and a point \(p\in \Omega\) such that \(\phi(p)_n\to \varsigma\) as \(n\to \infty\).



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