School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Kensington NSW 2033, Australia
Abstract:
Let and be two irreducible bounded symmetric domains in the complex spaces and respectively. Let be the Euclidean metric on and the Bergman metric on . The Bloch constant is defined to be the supremum of , taken over all the holomorphic functions and , and nonzero vectors . We find the constants for all the irreducible bounded symmetric domains and . As a special case we answer an open question of Cohen and Colonna.