Nonlinear equations on Carnot groups and curvature problems for CR manifolds (Q2569803)
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Nonlinear equations on Carnot groups and curvature problems for CR manifolds (English)
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20 October 2005
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Summary: We give a short overview of sub-Laplacians on Carnot groups starting from a result by \textit{R. Caccioppoli} [Rend. Accad. Sci. Fis. Mat., IV. Ser., Napoli 4, 49--54 (1934; Zbl 0010.16804)]. Then we show that sub-Laplacians on Carnot groups of step one arise in studying curvature problems for CR-manifolds. We restrict our presentation to the cases of the Webster-Tanaka curvature problem for the CR-sphere and of the Levi-curvature equation for strictly pseudoconvex functions.
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hypoellipticity
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Carnot groups
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sub-Laplacians
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Webster-Tanaka curvature
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Levi-curvature
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