Levi-Kähler reduction of CR structures, products of spheres, and toric geometry (Q1996408)

The authors introduce a process they call Levi-Kähler reduction, for constructing Kähler manifolds and orbifolds from CR manifolds (of arbitrary codimension) with a transverse torus action. Most of the paper is devoted to the study of Levi-Kähler reductions of toric CR manifolds, and in particular, products of odd-dimensional spheres. They draw explicit descriptions and characterizations of the orbifolds obtained by such reductions, and find that the Levi-Kähler reductions of products of 3-spheres are extremal in a weighted sense, as introduced in [J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 21, No. 5, 1319--1360 (2019; Zbl 1477.53077)] by the first author and \textit{G. Maschler}, and further studied in [\textit{A. Futaki} and \textit{H. Ono}, J. Math. Soc. Japan 70, No. 4, 1493--1521 (2018; Zbl 1410.53071)].