Invariant surface area functionals and singular Yamabe problem in 3-dimensional CR geometry

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2018.07.006MaRDI QIDQ1669039zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jih-Hsin Cheng, Yongbing Zhang, Paul C. Yang

Publication date 29 August 2018

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04120

zbMATH Keywords

pseudohermitian geometryTanaka-Webster curvatureCR invariant surface area functionalsingular CR Yamabe problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) CR structures, CR operators, and generalizations (32V05) Global surface theory (convex surfaces à la A. D. Aleksandrov) (53C45)

Abstract: We express two CR invariant surface area elements in terms of quantities in pseudohermitian geometry. We deduce the Euler-Lagrange equations of the associated energy functionals. Many solutions are given and discussed. In relation to the singular CR Yamabe problem, we show that one of the energy functionals appears as the coefficient (up to a constant multiple) of the log term in the associated volume renormalization.

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