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We introduce a new biholomorphically invariant metric based on Fefferman’s invariant Szegő kernel and investigate the relation of the new metric to the Bergman and Carathéodory metrics. A key tool is a new absolutely invariant function assembled from the Szegő and Bergman kernels.
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Communicated by Marco Abate.
The first author was supported in part by NSF grant number DMS-0901205.
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Barrett, D., Lee, L. On the Szegő Metric. J Geom Anal 24, 104–117 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-012-9329-x
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