The Webster scalar curvature problem on the three dimensional CR manifolds (Q2371389)

The authors prove some existence results for the Webster scalar curvature problem on the three dimensional compact manifolds locally conformally CR equivalent to the unit sphere \(\mathbb{S}^3\) in \(\mathbb{C}^2\). Let \((M,\theta)\) be a CR compact, \(3\)-dimensional manifold with the contact form \(\theta\). The problem is reduced to finding positive solutions of the problem \(Lu:=\Delta_\theta u+\frac{\mathcal{R}_0}{4}u=Ku^3\), \(u>0\), where \(M\) is locally conformally equivalent to \(\mathbb{S}^3\). The authors use some topological tools of the theory of critical points at infinity. They compute the topological contribution of the critical points at infinity between the level sets of the associated Euler functional.