Balls for the Kobayashi distance and extension of the automorphisms of strictly convex domains in with real analytic boundary
It is shown that given a bounded strictly convex domain in with real analitic boundary and a point in , there exists a larger bounded strictly convex domain with real analitic boundary, close as wished to , such that is a ball for the Kobayashi distance of with center . The result is applied to prove that if is not biholomorphic to the ball then any automorphism of extends to an automorphism of .