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In this paper, precise versions of several intuitive properties of quotients of hyperbolic metrics are established. Suppose that \(\Omega _j\) is a hyperbolic region in \(\mathbb {C}_\infty = \mathbb {C}\cup \{\infty \}\) with hyperbolic metric \(\lambda _j\), \(j=1,2\), and \(\Omega _1 \subsetneq \Omega _2\). First, it is shown that \(\lambda _1/ \lambda _2 \approx 1\) on compact subsets of \(\Omega _1\) that are not too close to \(\partial \Omega _1\). Second, \(\lambda _1/ \lambda _2 \approx 1\) when z is near \((\partial \Omega _1 \;\cap \; \partial \Omega _2 ) {\setminus } F_b\), where \(F = \partial \Omega _1 \;\cap \;\Omega _2\) and \(F_b = {{\mathrm{cl}}}(F)\;\cap \;\Omega _2\). The main tools used in establishing these results are sharp elementary bounds for \(\lambda _1(z)/ \lambda _2(z)\) in terms of the hyperbolic distance relative to \(\Omega _2\) from z to \(\partial \Omega _1 \;\cap \;\Omega _2\) that were first established and employed in complex dynamics.
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Minda, D. Quotients of Hyperbolic Metrics. Comput. Methods Funct. Theory 17, 579–590 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40315-017-0195-1
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