“…In a Hilbert space ellipsoids replace the internally tangent discs [18]. In strictly convex domains, in C n [1,2,7], or in Banach spaces [9,10], the internally tangent discs are replaced by horospheres defined in terms of the Kobayashi distance. Although these horospheres are defined for arbitrary Banach spaces [2,3,32], if the boundary of the ball is more complicated they are considerably less tractable, even in finite dimensions [17,4,16].…”