On the Gromov non-hyperbolicity of certain domains in Cn

In this paper, we prove that if Ω is a bounded convex domain in ${\mathbb{C}}^n$, $n\ge 2$, and S is an affine complex hyperplane such that $\mathrm{\Omega }\cap S$ is not empty, then $\mathrm{\Omega }?S$ is not Gromov hyperbolic with respect to the Kobayashi distance. Next, we show that if X is a bounded convex domain in ${\mathbb{C}}^n$, then $\mathrm{\Omega }=\{(z,w)\in X\times {\mathbb{C}}^{?},\left|w\right|<{\mathrm{e}}^{?\phi (z)}\}$ is not Gromov hyperbolic, where φ is a strictly plurisubaharmonic function on X continuous up to $\stackrel{￣}{X}$.