Fridman function, injectivity radius function and squeezing function

Abstract

Very recently, the Fridman function of a complex manifold X has been identified as a dual of the squeezing function of X. In this paper, we prove that the Fridman function for certain hyperbolic complex manifold X is bounded above by the injectivity radius function of X. This result also suggests us to use the Fridman function to extend the definition of uniform thickness to higher dimensional hyperbolic complex manifolds. We also establish an expression for the Fridman function (with respect to the Kobayashi metric) when X = D/Γ and Γ is a torsion-free discrete subgroup of isometries on the standard open unit disk D. Hence explicit formulae of the Fridman functions for the annulus A_r and the punctured disk D∗ are derived. These are the first explicit non-constant Fridman functions. Finally, we explore the boundary behavior of the Fridman functions (with respect to the Kobayashi metric) and the squeezing functions for regular type hyperbolic Riemann surfaces and planar domains, respectively.