Classification of homogeneous CR-manifolds in dimension 4 (Q607328): Difference between revisions

The general notions of locally homogeneous manifolds and their classification go back to Lie and É.\ Cartan. In the CR setting, there are various precise ways to formulate a definition of a locally homogeneous CR manifold; the equivalence of these definitions was shown by \textit{D. Zaitsev} [Asian J. Math. 11, No.~2, 331--340 (2007; Zbl 1138.32018)]. This paper offers a classification of \(4\)-dimensional locally homogeneous CR manifolds, giving an interesting list of normal forms for real analytic, CR generic, codimension \(2\) submanifolds of \({\mathbb C}^3\). The authors describe this case as intermediate between the previously known classification of locally homogeneous real hypersurfaces in \({\mathbb C}^2\) and the corresponding, but still open, problem for hypersurfaces in \({\mathbb C}^3\). Some of the model manifolds are ``symmetric'' CR-manifolds, as defined by \textit{W. Kaup} and \textit{D. Zaitsev} [Adv. Math. 149, No.~2, 145--181 (2000; Zbl 0954.32016], and the classification problem for the symmetric case is also discussed.