On the Hessian of the Carathéodory metric
On the Hessian of the Carathéodory metric
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关于卡拉西奥多里度量的 Hessian 矩阵
DOI:
10.1216/rmj-1978-8-3-555
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发表时间:
1978
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0.8
通讯作者:
J. Burbea
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作者:
J. Burbea
The generalized lower Hessian of an upper semi-continuous function / near a point z in C is introduced (for n = 1 see Heins, Nagoya Math. J. 2L (1962), 1-60). With this we introduce a "sectional curvature" and we prove that the sectional curvature of the Carathéodory-ReifFen metric is always ^ — 4. This generalizes a result of Suita (Kodai Math. Sem. Rep. 25 (1973), 215-218) in the one dimensional case. The sectional curvatures of the ball and polydisk are always —4. A few other properties of the Hessian of the above metric are shown. 1. Preliminaries. For a point z = (zi9 • • -, zn) G C , we set ||z|| = ( 2 7 1 l%l) and for flEO, r > 0, B(a, r) = {z G C : \\z — a\\ < r} denotes the open ball centered at a and with radius r. The natural pairing between a contangent vector a and a tangent vector v is denoted by (a, v). Especially, iff is a C function near the point z, and v = (vl9 • • • , !?„)£ O , then <df(z),v)= t-jt-vj. Let D be a bounded domain in C" and let U be the unit disk in C. H(D : U) designates the family of holomorphic functions from D into U. For fixed £ in D we write H{ (D:U)= { / G H(D : U) : /(£) = 0}. For each { € D , CD(£; ) is the function defined on the complex tangent space of D at £ by CD(C; v) = sup{|(df(a v)\:fGH(D: U)} (cf. Reiffen [3] ). Evidently, CD(C;v) = sup{|<d/(£),t>)| :fGH((D : I/)}. CD is called the Carathéodory metric for D. Since H(D : U) is a normal family, the supremum in the definition of CD(£; v) is attained by some F G Ht (D : C7). Here F(z) = F(z; £, v). By a normal family argument CD(£ : t>) is continuous in (£, Ü). For the above mentioned properties see [3]. Moreover, CD(£; v) is a locally Lipschitz function [!]• Received by the editors on July 19, 1976, and in revised form on November 8, 1976. AMS (MOS) 1970 Subject Classifications. 32H15, 32A30.