Kobayashi hyperbolicity in Riemannian manifolds

Abstract: We study the boundary behavior of the Kobayashi-Royden metric and the Kobayashi hyperbolicity of domains in Riemannian manifolds. As an application, we prove a Fatou type theorem on the existence, almost everywhere, of non tangential limits for bounded conformal harmonic immersed discs. We also prove a Picard theorem for conformal harmonic discs and give some examples of Kobayashi hyperbolic Riemannian manifolds.