Sharp estimates of the Kobayashi metric and Gromov hyperbolicity

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Abstract: Let D be a smooth relatively compact and strictly J-pseudoconvex domain in a four dimensional almost complex manifold (M,J). We give sharp estimates of the Kobayashi metric. Our approach is based on an asymptotic quantitative description of both the domain D and the almost complex structure J near a boundary point. Following Z.M.Balogh and M.Bonk, these sharp estimates provide the Gromov hyperbolicity of the domain D.


Let \((M,J)\) be an almost complex manifold of real dimension 4. Let \(D\subset \subset M\) denote a strictly \(J\)-pseudoconvex domain with a smooth boundary, given by \(D=\{ \rho <0\}\), where \(\rho \) is a smooth strictly \(J\)-plurisubharmonic function in a neighborhood of \(\overline D\). The author gives effective upper and lower bounds for the Kobayashi pseudodifferential metric \(K_{D,J}\) on \(D\). Namely, let \[ M(p; \nu):= \frac{|\nu_n(p)|^2}{4 \delta_D(p)^2}+ \frac{{\mathcal L}_J \rho (\pi (p);\nu_t)}{2 \delta_D(p)} , \] where \(\delta_D (p)\) denotes the distance of a point \(p \in M\) to the boundary of \(D\) (measured with respect to some Riemannnian metric), and \(\nu\) a tangent vector to \(D\) at \(p\) of type \((1,0)\) (with respect to \(J\)), which is split into its tangential and normal components \(\nu_t\) and \(\nu_n\), respectively. This splitting is taken at the projection \(\pi (p)\) of \(p\) to \(\partial D\), which is defined as follows: If \(p\) is sufficiently close to \(\partial D\), there exists a uniquely determined point \(\pi (p) \in \partial D\) such that \(\text{dist}(p,\pi(p)) = \delta_D(p)\). By \({\mathcal L}_J \rho (x;\nu)\) we denote the \(J\)-Levi form of the function \(\rho\) at the point \(x\). With these notations the result is: Theorem A: Let \((M,J)\) and \(D\) be as before. Then, for any \(\varepsilon >0\) there exists \(0< \varepsilon_0 < \varepsilon\) and positive constants \(C\) and \(s\) such that for every \(p \in N_{\varepsilon_0}(\partial D):=\{q\in M\mid \delta_D(q)< \varepsilon_0\}\) one has \[ e^{-C\delta_D(p)^s} M(p;\nu)\leq K_{D,J}(p,\nu)\leq e^{C\delta_D(p)^s} M(p;\nu) . \] The paper concludes with two applications to Gromov hyperbolicity: Theorem B: (1) Let \(D\) be a relatively compact strictly \(J\)-pseudoconvex smooth domain in an almost complex manifold \(M\) of real dimension 4. Then the domain \(D\), endowed with the integrated Kobayashi distance is a Gromov hyperbolic space. (2) Each point in a 4-dimensional almost complex manifold admits a basis of Gromov hyperbolic neighborhoods. These results generalize in the case of real dimension 4 those of \textit{Z. Balogh} and \textit{M. Bonk} [Comment. Math. Helv. 75, No. 3, 504--533 (2000; Zbl 0986.32012)], who had studied the case of strictly pseudoconvex domains in \(\mathbb C^n\).



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