Quasiconformal homeomorphisms on CR 3-manifolds with symmetries (Q1895769)

An extremal quasiconformal homeomorphism in a class of homeomorphisms between two \(CR\) 3-manifolds is a one which has the least conformal distortion among this class. The paper studies extremal quasiconformal homeomorphisms between \(CR\) 3-manifolds which admit transversal \(CR\) circle actions. Equivariant \(K\)-quasiconformal homeomorphisms are characterized by an area-preserving property and the \(K\)-quasiconformality of their quotient maps on the spaces of \(S^ 1\)-orbits. A large family of invariant \(CR\) structures on \(S^ 3\) is constructed so that the extremal quasiconformal homeomorphisms among the equivariant mappings between them and the standard structure are completely determined. These homeomorphisms also serve as examples showing that the extremal quasiconformal homeomorphisms between two invariant \(CR\) manifolds are not necessarily equivariant.