Solution of the tangential Kohn Laplacian on a class of non-compact CR manifolds (Q1736322)

The authors solve \(\Box_b\) for a certain class of non-compact 3-dimensional strongly pseudoconvex CR manifolds.They use conformal equivalence and a related \(\Box_b\)-operator on a compact 3-dimensional strongly pseudoconvex CR manifold applying the pseudodifferential calculus. They indicate that this method works whenever \(\bar \partial_b\) on the compact CR manifold has closed range in \(L^2;\) in particular it is not required that the CR manifold is the boundary of a strongly pseudoconvex domain in \(\mathbb C^2\). In addition, they study the CR Yamabe problem in 3 dimensions.