On holomorphic functions on negatively curved manifolds

Abstract

Based on a well known Sh.-T. Yau theorem we obtain that the real part of a holomorphic function on a K\"{a}hler manifold with the Ricci curvature bounded from below by $-1$ is contractive with respect to the distance on the manifold and the hyperbolic distance on $(-1,1)$ inhered from the domain $(-1,1)\times\mathbb{R}$. Moreover, in the case of bounded holomorphic functions we prove that the modulus is contractive with respect to the distance on the manifold and the hyperbolic distance on the unit disk.