Gromov hyperbolicity, the Kobayashi metric, and ℂ-convex sets

Zimmer, Andrew

doi:10.1090/tran/6909

Gromov hyperbolicity, the Kobayashi metric, and $\mathbb {C}$-convex sets
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In this paper we study the global geometry of the Kobayashi metric on domains in complex Euclidean space. We are particularly interested in developing necessary and sufficient conditions for the Kobayashi metric to be Gromov hyperbolic. For general domains, it has been suggested that a non-trivial complex affine disk in the boundary is an obstruction to Gromov hyperbolicity. This is known to be the case when the set in question is convex. In this paper we first extend this result to $\mathbb {C}$-convex sets with $C^1$-smooth boundary. We will then show that some boundary regularity is necessary by producing in any dimension examples of open bounded $\mathbb {C}$-convex sets where the Kobayashi metric is Gromov hyperbolic but whose boundary contains a complex affine ball of complex codimension one.

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