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Abstract Boundaries and Continuous Extension of Biholomorphisms

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We present different constructions of abstract boundaries for bounded complete (Kobayashi) hyperbolic domains in ℂd, d ≥ 1. These constructions essentially come from the geometric theory of metric spaces. We also present, as an application, some extension results concerning biholomorphic maps.

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To Professor László Lempert for his 70th birthday

Partially supported by PRIN 2017 Real and Complex Manifolds: Topology, Geometry and holomorphic dynamics, Ref: 2017JZ2SW5, by GNSAGA of INdAM and by the MIUR Excellence Department Project awarded to the Department of Mathematics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, CUP E83C18000100006.

Partially supported by ERC ALKAGE.

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Bracci, F., Gaussier, H. Abstract Boundaries and Continuous Extension of Biholomorphisms. Anal Math 48, 393–409 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10476-022-0163-5

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