Hyperbolic domains in real Euclidean spaces

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2023.V19.N6.A4MaRDI QIDQ6188619zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Barbara Drinovec Drnovšek, Franc Forstnerič

Publication date 7 February 2024

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.06943

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic domainsminimal metricsminimal pseudometric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maximum principle, Schwarz's lemma, Lindelöf principle, analogues and generalizations; subordination (30C80) Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions in two dimensions (31A05) Hyperbolic and Kobayashi hyperbolic manifolds (32Q45) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

Abstract: The second named author and David Kalaj introduced a pseudometric on any domain in the real Euclidean space $mathbb{R}^n$, $nge3$, defined in terms of conformal harmonic discs, by analogy with Kobayashi's pseudometric on complex manifolds, which is defined in terms of holomorphic discs. They showed that on the unit ball of $mathbb{R}^n$, the minimal metric coincides with the classical Beltrami-Cayley-Klein metric, one of the models of hyperbolic geometry. In the present paper we investigate properties of the minimal pseudometric and give sufficient conditions for a domain to be (complete) hyperbolic, meaning that the minimal pseudometric is a (complete) metric. We show in particular that a convex domain is complete hyperbolic if and only if it does not contain any affine 2-planes. One of our main results is that a domain with a negative minimal plurisubharmonic exhaustion function is hyperbolic, and a bounded strongly minimally convex domain is complete hyperbolic. We also prove a localization theorem for the minimal pseudometric.

Review text

Recently, \textit{F. Forstneric} and \textit{D. Kalaj} [``Schwarz-Pick lemma for harmonic maps which are conformal at a point, Preprint, \url{arXiv:2102.12403}] introduced a pseudometric on any domain in the real Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R}^n\), with \(n\geq 3\), defined in terms of conformal harmonic discs, by analogy with Kobayashi's pseudometric on complex manifolds. They showed that on the unit ball, this minimal metric coincides with the classical Beltrami-Cayley-Klein metric. In the present paper the authors investigate properties of the minimal pseudometric and give sufficient conditions for this minimal pseudometric to be a complete metric. They show, in particular, that the minimal pseudometric on a convex domain is complete if and only if the domain does not contain any affine 2-planes. Moreover, if a domain admits a negative minimal plurisubharmonic exhaustion function then the pseudometric is complete, and the same holds for bounded strongly minimally convex domains.

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