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In this section we prove Ahlfors’ generalization of the classical Schwarz lemma in function theory of one complex variable and its variants. For the general theory of intrinsic distances, we need only the classical Schwarz-Pick lemma in the form (2.1.7).
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Kobayashi, S. (1998). Schwarz Lemma and Negative Curvature. In: Hyperbolic Complex Spaces. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol 318. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03582-5_2
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