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The Dirichlet problem at infinity and complex analysis on Hadamard manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Takashi Yasuoka
Takashi Yasuoka*
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Department of Mathematics, Kyushu University Hakozaki, Fukuoka 812, Japan
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In this paper we shall study hyperbolicity of Hadamard manifolds.

In Section 1 we shall define and solve the Dirichlet problem at infinity for Laplacian J, which gives a partial extension of the result of Anderson and Sullivan in Theorem 1 (cf.). In Section 2 we apply the solution of the Dirichlet problem at infinity to a complex analysis on a Kâhler Hadamard manifold whose metric restricted to every geodesic sphere is conformai to that of the standard sphere. It seems that the sphere at infinity of such a manifold admits a CR-structure. In fact we can define a CR-function at infinity on the sphere at infinity. We shall show in Theorem 2 that there exists a holomorphic extension from the sphere at infinity and it coincides with the solution of the Dirichlet problem at infinity, if the Dirichlet problem at infinity is solvable. So we see that such a manifold admits many bounded holomorphic functions. By the similar method we shall show in Theorem 3 that such a manifold is biholomorphic to a strictly pseudoconvex domain in Cn , if the holomorphic sectional curvature Kh(x) is less than −1/(1 + r(x)2 ), where r(x) is a distance function from a pole. Theorem 3 is a partial answer to a conjecture raised by Green and Wu.

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Nagoya Mathematical Journal , Volume 106 , June 1987, pp. 79 - 90
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Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1987

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