Kobayashi metric

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The Kobayashi metric is an intrinsic pseudometric in complex analysis that measures hyperbolic distance on complex manifolds and generalizes the Poincaré metric to higher dimensions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf hyperbolic metric
intrinsic metric
invariant metric in complex analysis
pseudometric
agreesWith Hilbert metric on the unit ball in C^n up to equivalence
appearsIn "Hyperbolic Manifolds and Holomorphic Mappings" by Shoshichi Kobayashi NERFINISHED
appliesTo complex analytic spaces
complex manifolds
coincidesWith Carathéodory metric on the unit disc
Poincaré metric on the unit disc
definedUsing chains of holomorphic discs
infimum of lengths of chains of analytic discs
field complex analysis
complex differential geometry
several complex variables
generalizes Poincaré metric NERFINISHED
introducedBy Shoshichi Kobayashi NERFINISHED
introducedIn 1960s
isCompleteOn bounded convex domains in C^n
bounded strongly pseudoconvex domains
isContractedBy holomorphic self-maps
isDistanceDecreasingUnderHolomorphicMaps true
isEquivalentTo Bergman metric on certain bounded symmetric domains
Carathéodory metric on taut domains
isFinslerType true
isHolomorphicallyInvariant true
isIntrinsic true
isInvariantUnder biholomorphic maps
isLargestPseudometricWithDistanceDecreasingProperty true
isLocalFinslerMetricOn tangent bundle of a complex manifold
isMonotoneUnder holomorphic mappings
isNondegenerateOn Kobayashi hyperbolic manifolds
isPseudometric true
isToolFor proving Brody hyperbolicity
studying negative curvature in complex geometry
isUpperSemicontinuous true
mayFailToSeparatePoints true
namedAfter Shoshichi Kobayashi NERFINISHED
relatedConcept Bergman metric
Carathéodory metric NERFINISHED
Kobayashi hyperbolicity NERFINISHED
Teichmüller metric NERFINISHED
satisfies Schwarz–Pick type inequalities
usedToStudy complex dynamical systems
holomorphic mappings between complex manifolds
hyperbolicity properties of complex manifolds
vanishesIdenticallyOn complex Euclidean space C^n
complex projective space

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Carathéodory metric majorizedBy Kobayashi metric
Carathéodory metric relatedTo Kobayashi metric