Mok-Siu-Yeung type formulas on contact locally sub-symmetric spaces (Q1029593)

This article is a first step towards the study of horizontal (i.e., preserving the contact distributions) pseudoharmonic maps from compact strictly pseudoconvex CR-manifolds into strictly pseudoconvex CR-manifolds with non-positive pseudo-Hermitian sectional curvature. First, the author presents some basic facts concerning the contact metric manifolds and the pseudo-Hermitian curvature tensor of a strictly pseudoconvex CR-manifold. Next, he furnishes an explicit formula for the pseudo-Hermitian curvature tensor of a contact locally sub-symmetric space with non-zero pseudo-Hermitian tensor and derives some Mok-Seu-Yeung type formulas for horizontal maps between strictly pseudoconvex CR-manifolds. Finally, he defines and investigates the notions of horizontal pluriharmonic map and CR-pluriharmonic map, shows how these are related to the Rumin complex and obtains some interesting rigidity results when the source manifold is a contact locally sub-symmetric space.