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Visibility domains relative to the Kobayashi distance in complex manifolds

Complex Variables 2025-07-04 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

In this paper, we extend the notion of visibility relative to the Kobayashi distance to domains in arbitrary complex manifolds. Visibility here refers to a property resembling visibility in the sense of Eberlein--O'Neill for Riemannian manifolds. Since it is difficult, in general, to determine whether domains are Cauchy-complete with respect to the Kobayashi distance, we do not assume so here. We provide many sufficient conditions for visibility. We establish a Wolff--Denjoy-type theorem in a very general setting as an application. We also explore some connections between visibility and Gromov hyperbolicity for Kobayashi hyperbolic domains in the above setting.

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@article{arxiv.2406.09376,
  title  = {Visibility domains relative to the Kobayashi distance in complex manifolds},
  author = {Rumpa Masanta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.09376},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

28 pages; to appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Thoughts/comments welcome!